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user352498
8:31 AM
Does somebody know what does 駄目がない mean? Thanks.
 
Anonymous
9:51 AM
@QING Any context for that?
 
user352498
10:33 AM
A: 落語の魅力っていうと、どういうところですか。

B: そうですね。 えー、無駄がないところだと思います。

A: はあ、無駄がない。

B: あの、演じる側に、こう、無駄がまったくないところが、落語のいいところだと思います。 座布団というものの上に、着物を着て座ります。
 
kuchitsu
kuchitsu
10:45 AM
Note that you wrote 駄目 instead of 無駄 at first. :)
Which is understandable, I also sometimes "see" wrong words, probably due to not having enough experience with them.
 
user352498
@kuchitsu Thanks. I found the explanation.
 
user352498
 
Anonymous
11:29 AM
Oh. That makes more sense :-)
 
Anonymous
@kuchitsu Me too. Actually, it happens to me in English too, just not quite as often.
 
Anonymous
Yesterday my brain saw seahorse instead of seashore.
 
Artificial Stupidity
Artificial Stupidity
1:01 PM
Is my sentence「小さな損失を避けようとしても、逆に大きな損失を得た。」grammatically correct? I want to say "Trying to avoid small loss, on the contrary I got big loss.".
For example: someone saves his money by not using proper ratio of sand to cement, now his half-built house collapsed.
 
 
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Chocolate
Chocolate
2:25 PM
@ArtificialStupidity 「しても」はおかしいので・・
「して、逆に」とか
「したのに」とか
小さな損失を避けようとして・したのに、逆に大きな損失を出した。
とか
「損失を出した」のほうがよく使うかな
「損失を被った」（こうむった）という言い方もあるね
@ArtificialStupidity な～るほろ・・
@ArtificialStupidity うわアバターこわいｗ
 
Artificial Stupidity
Artificial Stupidity
2:43 PM
@Chocolate ありがとうござました。笑
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
3:00 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive body detected, potentially bad keyword in body, toxic body detected: How does this work by Manannananam on japanese.SE
 
Felipe Oliveira
Felipe Oliveira
Oh god I hate google translator
I wanted to know how to say "A draw", "A tie" in a game
Since I thought going from english to Japanese would not give me the desired result
I tried from portuguese to Japanese, since "empate" means "a tie" but it doesn't mean "a neck tie" at all.
still, that's what Google Translator gives me "ネクタイ" lol
It somehow translates the word to english and then it goes for japanese, what a mess
 
 
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Anonymous
10:37 PM
@FelipeOliveira That's because of how machine translation works. For it to be effective, they need large parallel corpora for a given language pair. There's a lot of English/Japanese and English/Portuguese, but not as much Japanese/Portuguese, so they have to make two hops to reach their destination.
 
Anonymous
@SmokeDetector Thanks, Smokey.
 

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