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- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:12:51 -0800
- From: s smith <sjs@example.com>
- Subject: Re: [Lingo] いつからか
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On 3/22/2010 8:25 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > s smith writes: > > Hi all. > > > > I'm trying to understand the lyrics _Far_Away_ sung by Ayumi Hamazaki. > > Now, that's wasted effort! Try Imawano's adaptations of Dylan songs. ;-) > I have a hard enough time understanding Dylan in English :) Something is happening but I don't know what it is... > 「いすから」is a question marker. A literal translation might be > "from when did [Windows stop crashing]?" For some reason, か makes > that question rhetorical, so「いつからか」 means something like "From > some unspecified time in the past". Typically it's unspecified > because it's long ago and the speaker has forgotten, but it could also > be something like 「CDの音が出ない…ああ、いつからかワイヤが外されたな。」 > "There's no sound from the CD ... aha, the wire seems to have been > disconnected some time ago."[1] > I knew ’か’ was a question marker but thought this must be something different because I couldn't see how it would fit. Thank you Stephen! I do appreciate the help. Steve S.
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