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Subject: Re: Susan starts posting


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Drommy
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Date Posted: 04:40:39 11/23/12 Fri
In reply to: Wes 's message, "Susan starts posting" on 20:56:27 10/21/12 Sun

Wes,

Another little thing from today's Chapter 15: "yonsei" actually means 4th generation (the root word "yon" means four) away from the home country. So the explanation in the tooltip is actually incorrect. In this case it would be Mizuki that is the 5th generation descendant or "gosei".

Now digging into my schoolbook Japanese.... :-)

Drommy

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khms
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Date Posted: 19:34:01 11/24/12 Sat

[Hmm, seems I forgot to actually post this?]
Another day, another chapter.

Macht nichts: Literally, “It means nothing.”

No, actually, it's literally "_makes_ nothing". You know, like in "makes no difference" (which over here would be "macht keinen Unterschied").

But, macht nichts – Riverside would do

This works, though I'd probably use "egal" there (I don't think there's an exact equivalent, the usage is somewhat different, but it's close to "equal").


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