I don't see a clean relationship between the first part of this sentence and the second half, perhaps because I'm not certain whose "social position" and whose "love and respect" is being referred to here.

The context is a soldier complaining about a new (aristocratic and female) commander. Or, for those of you who know The Rose of Versailles, it' ( Read more... )

*eyes cross*

I keep double-thinking this sentence, and I've gotten myself all mixed up.

貴女を伯爵に売り飛ばすつもりだったのよ

I hate the particle "ni." It's a transitive verb, ok. So the "ni" is "to," and not the person causing the action. Right? It's not some special passive or causative verb?

He intends to sell you off to the count.

not

The count intends to ( Read more... )

Oh dear. I'm translating a terrible running pun, and I need help thinking of synonyms I might be able to use to preserve some of the humor (?) in English ( Read more... )

Anyone know a meaning for グヂグヂ?

Does anyone have any recommendations for external hard drives? I'm going to back up all of these millions of recorded CDs and DVDs and get them out of my room and into a trash can!

I'm looking at the 2 & 3 TB drives.

Here's a question for the linguists and English majors among us ( Read more... )

度胸の座った

A phrase used to modify a person (i.e. 度胸の座ったやつ), so I'm guessing it's something like "this person has courage/pluck", but since I can't find a specific place that spells it out, I thought I'd see if anyone else can confirm or scoff at my guess.

Ah, and this one?

トリを務める

Something to do with taking a prize?