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| HenHanna to Jeff Barnett |
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| 06 Aug 24 10:06:41 |
XPost: sci.lang.japan, sci.lang.translation, alt.usage.english From: HenHanna@devnull.tb On 8/5/2024 11:16 PM, Jeff Barnett wrote: > On 8/3/2024 11:31 AM, HenHanna wrote: >> >> On 7/11/2024 6:10 AM, Dimitris Tzortzakakis wrote: >>> Hallo everyone, can someone help a fellow gaijin, how do I say in >>> japanese, "I have this Nikon lens, it had a problem but I had it >>> repaired and now it rocks", furigana are very much welcome, thanks in >>> advance. >> >> >> >> A bit literal: (ニコンのレンズを持っています。 題がありましたが、修理 >> し ました。今はすごいです。) >> >> >> A More Natural Expression >> While this translation is technically correct, >> it might sound a bit stiff in natural conversation. To make it sound >> more natural, you could try something like this: >> >> Nikon no lens ga atte ne, komatta koto ga atta nda kedo, 直したらめっ >> ちゃいい感じになったよ！ >> >> (ニコンのレンズがあってね、困ったこと あったんだけど、直したらめっ >> ちゃいい感じになったよ！) >> >> >> 私のニコンのレンズ、困ったことがあったんだけど、 修理したら >> めっちゃ いい感じになったよ > > I don't know if this is any help but Nikon used to be called Nippon > Kokaku. That's my guess at a almost phonetic spelling. I sure that a > proper pronunciation of that attempt was there name about 45 or 50 years > ago. > > As should be obvious from the above "weasel" wording, I don't know > Japanese either orally or lexically; But my interest in photography at > that time made me aware of many miscellaneous, isolated facts. I got a Nikon camera. I love to take a photograph. So mama, don't take my Kodachrome away. [Verse 2] If you took all the girls I knew when I was single. And brought them all together for night!!! ... >>> Nikon began as Nippon Kogaku K.K. (Japan Optical Industries Co., Ltd.) on July 25, 1917, at 120 Haramachi, Koishikawa-ku (present-day Hakusan 4-chome, Bunkyo-ku) in Tokyo, starting domestic production of optical instruments such as rangefinders and microscopes. --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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