Greetings everyone,
I was wondering why Hannes used ろ in 興じてろってな, he’s criticizing the Survery Corps here and that they “play-pretend” war, so why would he use the imperative ろ? Unless there’s a grammar nuance I’m missing 
Thank you in advance!
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It’s pretty basic grammar + common dropping of い from いる.
興じているー＞興じていろー＞興じてろ
imperative form of the progressive.
EDIT: Oh sorry, you didn’t ask what it was, but why it is.
I don’t think I have enough context, but it feels like the speaker is paraphrasing someone who said something with a similar content? Some commander, maybe, that gave the order to move out? Just conjecture though.
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Thanks for the reply! Yeah that part is quite clear, it’s just the use of the imperative form here… it makes the sentence quite odd.
I know nothing about this story, but it sounds like “Be my guest and have fun (imperative 興じろ) with you stupid play war all you want! I’m out”.
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Thank you for the reply! That actually makes a lot of sense! Though what messed me up is when I asked ChatGPT (my fault 
) and it said that in some cases Japanese add ろ at the end of the sentence to make it rough or masculine. I’ve never heard that before, I know of ぞ、ぜ、さ in some cases, but ろ、that’s news to me.
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i do think だろう and similar do have a more masculine sound compared with でしょう (or でしょ), but i don’t think miss GPT is right to say that men just be adding it for funsies
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Hahah I questioned it too, and it said i was wrong and here’s why: and gave some nonsensical BS reasons gaslit me into questioning my sanity and all these years of studying Japanese. I’m 日本語上手 dammit!
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I’m sorry, I don’t know the answer, but I wanted to ask what is the name of that manga?
It looks interesting!
It’s 進撃の巨人
Or Attack on Titan (in English)
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