Re: [Lingo] マニュアルチック

["Stephen A. Carter" <scarter@example.com>]

David J Iannucci wrote:
> In this case, we have マニュアルチック＊に＊, and one might question why
> the need for チック if we have に, and again I can't offer an authoritative
> theory, but it may be simply to augment to adverbial-ness of the
> expression. In other words, I read this example (sorry, I aggressively
> trimmed it out as a knee-jerk reaction to the recent list-iquette uproar
> on main list :-) as
>
>   "You can manually shift it up-down"
>
> I would love to get some native-speaker input on this question. Maybe
> I'll just ask my wife when I get home :-) :-)

Yeah, that makes sense: "you can shift up and down with the feel of a 
stick shift."

Forget what I whote before.

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Stephen A. Carter
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Nagoya, Japan