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Decided not to post my translations this week because I am feeling pretty run down from a busy week. I do have one question though:
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もっと人間さんをうまく驚かせるようにないたい - Can't quite seem to figure out what she is saying here. Something along the lines of "I need to be more clever to surprise more humans" (?)
“I want to become better at surprising humans” I think.
もっと - more
人間さん - people
うまく - well
驚かせる - to frighten
ように - like
なりたい - you actually had a typo here (ないたい instead of なりたい), to want to become
I want to become more better at frightening people
I came up with the same except I think it‘s actually the potential form of 驚かす So ~„I want to be able to better scare people“ or something
Even though, looking at the dictionary, it seems like 驚かせる is a verb too on itself
… actually I feel kinda stupid for this comment again lol, it‘s such a detail and it doesn‘t actually change the meaning at all, sorry just felt like mentioning it idk
Actually that’s an interesting point. As far as I can tell, the two dictionary form words (驚かる and 驚かせる) have the exact same meaning. Their potential forms are (respectively) 驚かせる and 驚かせられる (or 驚かせれる). So, as far as I can tell, there is no way of differentiating between the potential form of 驚かる and the dictionary form of 驚かせる, other than that 驚かる seems to be more common in modern Japanese.
Here, based on context, I would assume that it is the potential (“to be able to frighten”) since that makes more sense to me, but just reading the word by itself I don’t think there’s any way of knowing which it is.
Not sure how to parse this, particularly the と. “Actually, when I argued with mama I was a little lonely” or similar? I’m not sure who the subject of the verb is or who the adjective is modifying.
That’s basically how I translated it as well. I feel like she means something more like “The truth is…I was feeling lonely because of the argument I had with my mom.” although I don’t think that sentence structure technically implies a cause-effect relationship just a “I fought with mom, then I was lonely”.
The と here just means “with”. As in, “I fought with mom…”
Neither of these would make sense if Mia said them
In the first one the mom is basically talking in third person, because kid speech.
In the second one she’s talking about thinking about MIa’s emotions
Just out of curiosity, how frequently does it show up in hiragana instead of katakana? I can’t remember ever having seen it in hiragana actually, although I’m sure it is written that way sometimes.
According to this, the word appears with the following frequencies:
喧嘩 - 6008.
けんか - 14440.
ケンカ - 10081.
So 喧嘩 is quite a bit more frequent (per Zipf’s law, it should be about 1.6 times as common), but this probably depends heavily on the type of text you are reading, like it won’t show up as katakana in newspapers most likely, but it probably will in texting or on twitter quite a bit.
Speaking of twitter, you can also go on there and look for the word (searching for latest), you can check how frequently the word was posted recently, and you can compare them like that as well. This way you see a similar-ish distribution for the kanji and katakana versions.
I’m starting to wonder if that has ever happened 
