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?
> -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.
>
> Kamui
>
stevo
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