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::::::"This child's selfish, so don't pamper him/her." Or "It's no good to pamper this selfish child." The other translation, "so that selfishness will result", inserts a verb. So I don't know if we should assume there's a missing verb. Oh well, I really have to go do other things now :-) --[[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]] 22:46, 31 March 2008 (CEST) | ::::::"This child's selfish, so don't pamper him/her." Or "It's no good to pamper this selfish child." The other translation, "so that selfishness will result", inserts a verb. So I don't know if we should assume there's a missing verb. Oh well, I really have to go do other things now :-) --[[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]] 22:46, 31 March 2008 (CEST) | ||
:::::::Thanks Dox, your disambiguated translation is fine. I like the idea of the verb "pamper" being "distributed" onto both "this child" and "its selfishness". The idea would be: "Yo, don't pamper this cutie or you'll spoil her." But of course the original construct is more powerful: "If you nurse this cutie, you'll also be nursing her egoism. So don't. Yo." Anyway, quite random, just as that Kid A thing; not even close to "Konoko no nanatsuno oiwaini"... --[[User:Geyser|geyser]] 00:16, 1 April 2008 (CEST) | |||
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::...Oh. But it says ovaries in the document, not gonads. Right? There's no way I can bear changing this section title to "Konoko's Gonads". :@ --[[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]] 22:46, 31 March 2008 (CEST) | ::...Oh. But it says ovaries in the document, not gonads. Right? There's no way I can bear changing this section title to "Konoko's Gonads". :@ --[[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]] 22:46, 31 March 2008 (CEST) | ||
:::Well, just leave Konoko alone, why doncha? While we're at it, my main complaint was about "fish", not "ovaries": they're sea cucumbers, for sake's sake. And it's not like ''that'' kind of trivia deserves a whole section anyway, or at least not ''that'' kind of section (overcapitalized header, 100% fabricated "false alarm", and ''of course'' the unavoidable "bonafide"... ^_^ ). Wet-blanket rant over. --[[User:Geyser|geyser]] 00:16, 1 April 2008 (CEST) | |||
==Japanese Names== | ==Japanese Names== | ||