Re: Japanese Reading Practice: Britney in Trouble



Ren wrote:
[...]
sawaga 騒がto cause trouble
seせ[su-verb]can do

Is this your new program? Your old one handled such things as sawag-ase-
"cause commotion; commtion-causing" slightly better. It would have
presumably made it
sawa 騒 to be/get noisy [wild guess]
ga が [gu-verb]
seせ[causative]make do [or something like that]

[...]

But this part looks like what you used to do
haKo運transport
baば[bu-verb]
reれ[passive]be done
taた[informal,past]

seiShin精神logical and emotional intention
Huh?

kanTei鑑定expert opinion and judgment
Really?

uke 受けto undertake
Interesting translations today!

[...]
mikKa3日third day
kan間for a time

When can 間 even be close to "for a time"? Make it "time period"
or something!

[...]

ichiGatsu1月January
hajimeni初めにto begin with

Maybe with a は after it, with nothing in front. Most of the time it'll
mean "in/at the beginning (of)."

[...]
shitaした[informal,past]did
bakariばかりonly
deでby way of,happening at,made of,made by someone
、comma

Before a comma, "deで" is very likely to be the で of であって,
that is, the te-form of -desu. (That is what it is here.)

hayakumo早くもas early as

Those "as"es certainly don't belong. A lone "early" would be an
improvement, but when does 早くも not mean "already"?

[...]
uchiKe打ち消to contradict
shiし[su-verb]

Could have been [su-verb], even with the に after it, but here we have
uchiKeshi 打ち消し denial
It's a noun.

niにat,in,on,to,-ly
[...]
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