Re: OT: Help with Japanese

Peter Clark wrote:

>    Watashi mo anata o aisuru (neahnana!)
> I know that "Watashi...aisuru" means "I love you," but I'm clueless as
> to what "neahnana" means.
"Watashi MO..." means "I love you, too." Too, "aishiteru" sounds nicer
to me than "aisuru". "Neahnana" does not compute. As Rhialto has pointed
out, "-ahn-" is not possible in Japanese (maybe it's Tokana [;)]).
First, I thought maybe it came from one of those "How to say 'I love
you' in 8 bazillion languages" sites (here it is in Japanese and here it
is in Mambwe). Then I thought maybe it was "ben" action -- one of the
regional varieties of Japanese -- and this was some final sentence
particle reserved for coy Kansai geishas or something. Finally, perhaps
it was a minority language -- Ainu? Miyako?. But in the end, I think
not. Sans context, it looks like a bust from here.

Kou