Hey there, thanks for visiting, whoever you are. I’m currently reading the manga series 進撃の巨人 (Attack on Titan) and will post here eventual grammar and general comprehension questions. Feel free to join for any purpose, I’d appreciate having other people who are reading/have read/ are planning to …

[image] mariodesu: Indeed the way you told me to think, that ‘everything is negated except from the しか marked element’ is very helpful and works in my head but in my specific example the word 言い返す is already negated… 言い返せなくて is a different clause, explaining the reason of the main clause 殴ること…

Oh okay, this explains everything

I’m noting every contraction I find while reading to make a list, I’m not sure but I think I found a contraction of どい into でぇ Is this possible? Can’t provide the sentence because I lost it, I just noted this contraction quickly during my yesterday read

Adjectives like ひどい turning into ひでー or ひでぇ is definitely a thing that exists. Similar to that, 痛い → いてー, やばい → やべぇ are also common.

I think I actually saw exactly the ひどい example

[image] mariodesu: I’m noting every contraction I find while reading to make a list Like this? Quick Contraction Reference :joy_cat:

While that list is quite comprehensive it includes a ton of contractions, the majority of which won’t even appear in AoT vol.1, I want to do a ‘what to expect’ list possibly that uniquely refers to the volume 1 Also it doesn’t include the どい→でぇ if I’m not wrong

Oh ok I thought you wanted to collect a personal list to use for all books going forward. My bad!

No worries, if I didn’t knew the existence of that list I would’ve definitely wanted to know, so thanks for linking!

進撃の巨人 (Attack On Titan) reading attempt

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NicoleIsEnough June 28, 2022, 8:40am 258

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