Re: Alphabet (you're a fish?)
| From: | D Tse <exponent@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 4, 2001, 4:07 |
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Well, it COULD be used that way, but in this context "I am a fish"
*was*
the intended meaning. :-) Besides, IIUC, X wa Y desu is usually
interpreted as X is Y, unless the context makes it clear that another
meaning is intended.
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Hmm, someone once answered "watashi wa sakana desu" to the teacher in
one of my Japanese classes... though I didn't get the joke at the
time.
Another guy translated in a puzzled manner "What? I am a fish?" and
the teacher replied that it actually made sense; you could order food
in a restaurant like that, "As for me, I (would like) fish".
Imperative
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