風の谷のナウシカ (ABC) - Week 1

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This came up in a different thread the other day and @Vanilla had a bunch of other examples of this てみろ usage. To quote him:

It’s used for something bringing about a certain hypothetical result, typically

In our example the “bringing a spore into the fields” is the condition, and “it being a big deal/trouble/commotion” the hypothetical result.

FWIW the Viz English translation is “If even one of those gets into the fields, there’ll be an uproar, let me tell you!”.

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