Re: A little Japanese test

My gf gave me a 膝が笑う。　That's another nuance?

ax

On Sep 27, 7:46 am, "B. Ito" <jg2...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Dan Rempel" <drem...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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B. Ito wrote:

"ax" <anton....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think I am the only one who is still not clear nor I have learned
anything thru this conversation.
Ito san, can you provide answers please?

Anton
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Sorry, Anton.  I think you've got 1-a and 2-a.

In cases of 1-b and 2-b, the actions or deeds of 'laughing' or 'smiling'
and
of 'singing' have nothing so much to do with the intended meaning of
those
two sentences.

'To look at something with a contemptuous opinion' would be one of the
answers to the 1-a and 'to say a word for example, kaput in front of
something'
would be one of the answers to the 2-b.

Thanks for the comments on 1-a: I've been puzzeling over that one ever
since a friend said that after a not-bad-but-with-a-few-mistakes
rendering of "オジー自慢のオリオンビール." Is it safe to assume then she
meant something like "Jeez, that was terrible..."?

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Sorry to ax and Dan.   The above 1-a is a typo which must be 1-b in that
context.

To make these matters straight, I'll state one example each of correcct
answers to
each quesiton.

１．笑っちゃった。
1-a   I couldn't help laughing (smiling).
1-b   I couldn't help having contemptuous feeling against ..........

2.  歌っちゃった。
2-a   I tried singing. (I don't know why, but I sang.)
2-b   It went kaput.    (The machine has broken.    The tool can no longer
be used.)

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B. Ito



Dan

--
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his
own facts.
-- Patrick Moynihan

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