I guess I’ll kick off the chapter 70 discussion. Pretty excited to have finally caught up with this book club! When I tried to read よつばと！ back when it started I had no hope at all, but now I can read through most chapters pretty smoothly!
As I’ve been trying to catch up I’ve been reading through chapters pretty quickly, and skipping over particulars that I may not have 100% understood, as long as I got the gist of it, but I think I’ll be more in depth now that I’ve caught up.
Page 11: お客さんとこの子
While I understood this meaning, とこの was tripping me up as I was thinking it was broken down to とこ・の・子, but I think I see that it’s と (and/with) この子 (a child of that type), right?
Page 12: やりよんの
I’m guessing this is slang for やりようの; the way to do something.
Page 12: かまん
All I could come up with myself was that this might have meant “come on”. After a bit of Googling it looks like it could be short for 構わない, which still seems like a slightly odd fit in that conversation. Thoughts?
This chapter reminded me of Japanese lessons I’ve been in, where questions like うどんとおそばとどっちが好き？ are very common. 