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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 16 Dec 2001.
Re: Nerd Boy, episodes 129-134 (+ fan art)

Re: Nerd Boy, episodes 129-134 (+ fan art)

"Philip Newton" <pne...@newton.digitalspace.net> skrev i
meddelandet news:0eo...@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 16:23:53 +0100, "Joaquim Almgren G�ndara"
> <cla...@lords.com> wrote:
>
> > "Philip Newton" <pne...@newton.digitalspace.net> skrev i
> > meddelandet news:4b9...@4ax.com...
> > > On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 14:08:14 +0100, "Joaquim Almgren G�ndara"
> > > <cla...@lords.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > "Oshigoto wa nan desu ka" = "What is your profession?"/"What do you
do?"
> > > > "Nani o shimasu ka" = "What are you doing?"
> > >
> > > What about "Nani o shite imasu ka"?
> >
> > I don't know enough Japanese (yet) to know how the "-te" suffix works...
But
> > "imasu"? I've only seen that used for telling someone where a person is.
>
> Yes, but it's also used in a sense that I think is a bit like the
> English present continuous (I'm ...ing): -te + imasu. So I think you
> would translate "What do you do in the summer?" "I read books" as "Hon o
> yomimasu", but "What are you doing right now?" "I'm reading a book" as
> "Hon o yonde imasu".
>
> So I would have expected "Nani o shite imasu ka", because it's a
> question about what the person is doing right now. But my Japanese
> grammar isn't all that great, either.

I think I've heard people say "Nani o shimasu ka" in anime, although of
course that is actually no indication that the term is correct...

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From: "Joaquim Almgren G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com>
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Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episodes 129-134 (+ fan art)
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