April 27th Daily Reading ブラックジャックによろしく: Community Reading Exercise

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Transcription** & **Interpretation


斎藤:《でも『さ』…》
でも(but) with a sentence ending particle denoting assertiveness, 『さ』.


《もしも腕『に』自信ないなら執刀なんてしなきゃいいじゃないか》
:bulb:I googled the difference between もし and もしも and as far as I can tell, there’s no difference, they both mean “if”. This is followed by 腕 which we’ve established mean skill and not arm in this context. Self-confidence in the negative, 自信ない, is nestled between 〜なら and もしも, so in the case a person has no self-confidence.

執刀 means to perform an operation and なんて means ‘such as’.

So if a person has no confidence in their skill in performing operation… what I’m missing is しなきゃ. I imagine しなきゃ is する in the non-past negative but what is きゃ? Is it just a colloquial manifestation in this context?

All in all, I think it means:

“but in the that a person doesn’t have confidence in their ability, they won’t perform surgery won’t they?”
…or something along those lines.