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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (May 11, 2025)

  • May 11, 2025

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  4. Let’s assume that there are three possible answers to a proposition: true, false, idk

    1. 正しいよね？ = Isn’t it true?

    2. 正しくないの？ = Is it not true? (means ‘Is it false or idk?’)

    3. 正しくないのね？ = Isn’t it not true? (means ‘Isn’t it false or idk?’)

    Are those correct? I ask you because ChatGPT said ‘3. has a double negative. It’s unnatural in English.’.

  5. Well yeah “isn’t it not true” is sort of awkward English. Not technically impossible and you might say it to make a verrrry particular point. But it would be avoided in most cases as it’s hard to follow.

    Sentence 2 and 3 are the same thing in Japanese, with different emphasis particles at the end to give different nuances. But there are no additional (or fewer) negatives between 2 and 3.

    If you were going to “translate” number 3 you might go with something like “So it’s not correct?”

  6. https://imgur.com/a/Ox6VTIF

    I am not sure what 店長調教済み means next to the picture of 店長. There are conflicting English translations. Does 店長調教済み mean that the manager is now her slave?

  7. Any tips/resources for helping develop an intuition for onomatopoeia? Adding them to Anki isn’t really working for me (horrible retention rate), and neither is reading them in manga (can only rarely figure out from context what it means).

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