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Re: OT: Help with Japanese

From:Douglas Koller <laokou@...>
Date:Thursday, January 28, 1999, 12:42
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