--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 2005-01-06 12:31:57 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>
> > -Nanika taberu? (You wanna to eat something?)
>
> "wanna" equals "want to", so the "to" in this English sentence is
> unnecessary. Is the Japanese sentence also as slangy and informal
as the English?
Sorry, my mistake.
I first wrote "You wanna eat something?", then I changed it to "You
want to eat something?", thinking "wanna" may be too slangy. But
then I changed my mind and put the "want to" back to "wanna" because
the Japanese sentence is really colloquial, and in that process I
forgot to delete the "to".
> > -Nanika taberu. (I wanna eat something.)
> >
> > When you hear it, you can distinguish the two, because the
speaker
> > uses different intonations (i.e. rising one and falling one).
But in
> > writing, you can
>
> *not* (or *'t*)
>
> tell one from the other if there is no question
>
> > mark. So in cases like this, you should use the mark to make it
> > clear the sentence is interrogative.
My mistake again.
I accidentaly deleted "'t" when rewrote that part.
Thanks for the corrections.
Kamui
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