よつばと! Vol 12 Discussion Thread (Yotsuba&! Reading Club)

[Kazzeon]

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よつばと! Volume 12 (Chapters 77-82) Discussion Thread

Current Chapter: 82

Reading Schedule

Start Date	Reading	Jump To Discussion
February 18	Chapter 77	link
February 25	Chapter 78	link
March 3	Chapter 79	link
March 10	Chapter 80	link
March 17	Chapter 81	link
March 24	Chapter 82	link

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Resources

• Jisho : An online dictionary with words by Wanikani level, radical search, etc.
• Romaji Desu : An online dictionary that allows you to look up by romaji, even for conjugated verbs.

[Kazzeon]

Chapter 77!

[Belthazar]

You can see the photos Yotsuba has been taking on the inside covers. The one she takes on page 20 is in the lower-left corner of the inside front cover. Oh, wait. There it is again on 36.

Page 16, what’s おまかいですが when it’s at home?

[Kazzeon]

What does it mean when it’s not at home?

(Found this on WK by looking it up on Google. )
Apparently asked before, and then answered, and yeah, found the same mentioned online.

よつばと！Vol 1 Discussion Thread (Beginner's Book Club)

Page 77 (paper): よつば says 「ど〜ぞ おあがりたまえ！！おまかいですが」. I’m pretty sure this is a jumble of misused polite language, but what phrases is she trying to say and what do they mean? I know どうぞ means please and is typically used for things like asking people to accept something from you. What are the other two?

よつばと！Vol 1 Discussion Thread (Beginner's Book Club)

My guess is that with the おまかい, she probably meant お構い (おかまい), which is often said as お構いなく when you go to someone’s house.

[Belthazar]

Whew, that was a little while ago.

[humantree]

I so vaguely remembered this, so I was content to just let this sentence go by thinking “It’s Yotsuba being Yotsuba (somehow)”.

[windupbird]

Woo, volume 12! The opening pages of this volume are strangely relaxing.
I love Yotsuba’s “mind = blown” face when Tora tells her about the clock numbers xD
That bow on Tora’s head at the end is very kawaii indeed

[Kazzeon]

It’s that chapter! It’s so cute. Love Torako.

[Kazzeon]

They are very relaxing.

Yotsuba looks a little younger as well.

Well, that was short.

[Kazzeon]

Chapter 78!

[humantree]

What a tensely-adorable chapter.

I feel like there were some sentences early in the chapter that I skipped over a little, so I might come back with some questions about them later.

[Belthazar]

This is why we keep paint out of reach of kids. Still, I’m fairly impressed with her logic, here - using a spoon as a lever, actually thinking to put newspaper under the tin. Also impressed that she managed to get a fairly even coat. At least, it looks even from here. And somehow she managed to paint the legs all the way to the floor without getting a halo of blue paint around them.

Page 41, I assume とんな is some sort of negative imperative of 解く, but what on earth kind of slang is that?

This might be what Yotsuba is singing on page 53, but I’m not hugely confident of that:

[windupbird]

I’m weirdly excited about having learned the difference between ペンキ and 絵の具 Thanks Yotsuba

@Belthazar

Page 41, I assume とんな is some sort of negative imperative of 解く, but what on earth kind of slang is that?

Isn’t it a slang-y version of the negative imperative とるな? Seems like it would be logical to respond with a form of とる, since Yotsuba used とれる (取れる) initially. (Although I’m not sure why she’s using とれる instead of 解く, I feel like that could be chalked up to little kid-speak and equating the shoe being removed with untying the laces?)

[Toyger]

When she discovered the cans… “oh no… no no no… what will you do!!!”
I love his reaction though, best way tp deal with it!

It wouldn’t be right to scold her anyway. She didn’t know better. I would sit down and have a talk, and say if you do it again I’ll get mad, cause now you know it is wrong, but I’m not mad this time.

[Kazzeon]

I mean, blue table.

[Kazzeon]

できちまった feels weird.

Beef overlaps with the night?

しかくくて, too. :0

Yotsuba knows how to use tools! Stone Age unlocked!

I mean, I know, but I still find it funny that Yotsuba gets scolded all the time for doing things she’s not supposed to do, but still does them anyway.

Could someone share with me their version of the page where she dips the brush in the paint?

Well, that kinda explains it.

Also, ペンキ.

[Kazzeon]

Chapter 79!

[Belthazar]

@Kazzeon

できちまった feels weird.

できてしまった

@Kazzeon

Beef overlaps with the night?

Because he’s planning to make beef for dinner, if they have beef curry for lunch, they’ll be doubling up.

@Kazzeon

Could someone share with me their version of the page where she dips the brush in the paint?

You… you don’t have it?

[Kazzeon]

@Belthazar

できてしまった

Isn’t it usually できちゃった is what I mean.

@Belthazar

Because he’s planning to make beef for dinner, if they have beef curry for lunch, they’ll be doubling up.

Figured, but I wasn’t sure of the meaning.

@Belthazar

You… you don’t have it?

I mean, I have it. I just wanted to see how other people have it.

[Belthazar]

@Kazzeon

I mean, I have it. I just wanted to see how other people have it.

I… don’t really understand the issue here. Maybe you go first.

Welp, onto the next chapter.

Honestly pretty straightforward. Page 71, they’ve gotten the paint off her face, but her hands are still blue?