Teasing Master Takagi-san 😝 ・ Volume 1, chapter 4

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いいと思うよ
I think it’s good

ちょっとだけどなんかたくましくなった気がするし
Have some doubts on this one, what does the ちょっと means here?
だけど → however
なんか → something like
たくましくなった → became strong
気がする → have a feeling
“However I have a feeling that you’re somewhat getting strong” or something like that…?

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I would say the ちょっと is literally just: A little bit.

Literally:

“(It’s) a little bit, but something like becoming stronger, I feel (you are).”

Naturally, fairly close to your interpretation:

“It’s (just) a little, but I feel you are becoming somewhat stronger.”

I think I’m getting what you mean, actually reading this I recalled watching a cure dolly video about it that explained it wonderfully… if I’m not wrong she said that when there isn’t a が or a を then it means that you (or an implicit subject) wants something, but when が or を appear that means that that thing is want-inducing, therefore in the previous example Nishikata’s face was so funny that Takagi-san referred to his face as being want-inducing to see it.
Is this correct?

Got it!

damn, this sounds so good, it finally makes complete sense

Clear now, I fell again into that logic of translating japanese too much into english… I hope I’ll eventually get rid of this :crossed_fingers:

Eh, now that you mention it, I guess that humour can be tough to grasp if it’s not in a very simple form… it will require a lot of work and immersion…

I’m actually playing the gacha rn, and it’s pretty good practice. Mostly since I find a ton of translation mistakes. Pretty simple to follow the story, too.

Same! And agreed, there’s not really any crazy curveballs in the game, but yeah, there are definitely some translation mistakes. I notice the same thing in the PriConne gacha game, as well, from time-to-time, though it’s got fewer mistakes and more…liberal interpretations (to be generous). Haha. The only outright mistake I noticed recently was somebody must have mixed up 拍手 and 握手 because they mistranslated “applause” as “handshake,” even after the sound effect of applause played. :laughing:

Which like, if they were going off of spoken words, I can see making the mistake, but one would think they would be going off of a written script to translate, and the 拍 and 握 kanji don’t really look much alike at all. :sweat_smile:

:eyes: what’s your arena rank

I’m 99% sure they’re going off the English translation for all other versions, since they make the same mistakes.

I’ve messaged them about some of them, but they don’t seem interested in doing it properly.

I remember Erika says something like, 聞きたいのはそんな言葉じゃない, and they translated it as, not a good reception, or something like that

Here’s what the ちょっと meant! Damn, today I’m a bit out of focus, therefore I apologize if I made you repeat on stupid details. I’m missing a lot of things, but this chapter was definitely tough…

Anyway, I just made it! This is a personal record, I did chapter 4 in less than 2 days and a half!
It’s not that I’m rushing, I’m just following a pace that allows me to carefully go through every grammar point I don’t understand, and since this chapter was tough I can only take conclusions that I’m actually improving. Merit goes to @MrGeneric 先輩 for the thorough explanations :grin:

Only one doubt left, want to check if I got the last speech bubble of the chapter right because it was a bit tough to interpret

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とりあえず高木さんにからかわれなくなっても筋トレは続けようと思った。

とりあえず → for the time being

からかわれなくなっても : からかわれる → からかわれない → からかわれなく + なる → なっても

Literal translation:
For now, also if I turn into not receiving teasing from Takagi-san, let’s continue muscle training training, I think

Rearranged:
For now, I think I’ll continue training even if Takagi-san will stop teasing me (I guess this is an illusion to the fact that Nishikata wants to keep training because Takagi-san complimented him)

That’s all!

Are you dragging?

(Sorry I’ll stop derailing)

More このすば

In Konosuba? Hold on, let me check. The answer is “bad” because I’ve not given as much attention to that game as PriConne. :laughing: (Case in point: I’m just now seeing the DanMachi collab, and it’s downloading an update, so I’ll get back to you on my rank when that finishes… :sweat_smile:)

oof, yeah, that’s definitely going beyond taking liberties. :sweat_smile: But since most people aren’t going to be paying attention to the Japanese at all, it’s not a surprise that they just kinda write it how they feel it fits. It does make you wonder why they choose some of the things they do, though.

I’d say you’ve got the meaning, yep! Congratulations on another chapter completion!

I’m afraid I miss the meaning of this english expression :joy:

It’s a Whiplash meme.

Say no more, lol.

Wow, beautiful scene, what film is that? And is him JK Simmons?
Anyway, I don’t know the difference from rushing and drugging :rofl:

(Oh ok the film is Whiplash :man_facepalming:)

Yeah, it’s a pretty good movie. Recommended.

And he is. :+1:

A fresh “error” (because at this point they’re just saying whatever they feel like) from Bell’s affinity lines.

Something something Ais trained me. 少しは成果が出てるかな。

Which should be, “I wonder if the results are showing even a little.”

But it’s translated as, “I hope it’s not too obvious that I just started.”

Even Google Translate gets this one right.

Oof, that’s just embarrassing. :rofl: