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

"Philip Newton" <pne...@newton.digitalspace.net> skrev i
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> On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 20:01:51 +0100, "Joaquim Almgren G�ndara"
> <cla...@lords.com> wrote:
>
> > "Philip Newton" <pne...@newton.digitalspace.net> skrev i
> > meddelandet news:0eo...@4ax.com...
> > > 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...
>
> I've also heard "Nani shitenno?", but that's probably slang. (Short for
> "Nani o shite iru no desu ka?" --> "Nani shite iru no?" --> "Nani
> shiteru no?" --> "Nani shitenno?", I suppose.)
>
> Don't ask me which way of saying it is most correct ;)

Actually, "no" can be and is used as a question particle by women and
children. It's kind of baby talk, if I'm not entirely mistaken. So maybe
it's just "Nani shite no".

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