linguistic theory for the day

[kaigou]

Emphatic participles in Japanese, for which there is no direct equivalent in English, may instead be translated as follows (as deduced after lengthy research, discussion, and some chocolate). Just take a simple statement:

I'm going to walk the dog

...and add the following:

you gotta problem with that?



Works for pretty much any statement, anywhere, anytime.

Hah.

Now, I wonder. What characters other than Duo (GW) use this kind of emphatic participle in the original Japanese? Do tell.

Comments

[gakifang.livejournal.com]

--; I woke my roommate up cackling at that scene. I'm fairly sure that even in the game, in the japanese speech bubbles, he used a lot of zoto and yo. I remember hearing somebody bitch about how the game was less fun when the people sounded so generic in their speech bubbles in english.