Non-subject sentence
English translation: Add the subject
| 00:12 Jun 20, 2007 |
| Japanese to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Mark Kellner United States Local time: 21:26 | ||||||
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| 5 +1 | Subject is "YOU" |
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| 5 | Add the subject |
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18 hrs confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1Subject is "YOU" Explanation: Basically I agree with Mark when he says "add subject". So I thought about voting "agree". But this question loomed up on my head: Does this device (player of some sort as it sounds) do the action of 再生 by itself, or operator (human)? ビデオクリップコンテンツの再生を行う際には, 自動的にビデオクリップ再生画面に遷移し, 音楽コンテンツ再生時には音楽再生画面に遷移する。 To me it looks like the operator, a human who plays the plyaer does the 再生 job, not the player. Unsolicited side note: In Japanese sentence it is totally acceptable writing w/o subject (as you may already have noticed). Subject's whereabout is so tacitly agreed and well hidden (though it is so evident to them), it is only us J to E translator who has to go out for hunt. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 18 hrs (2007-06-20 18:37:59 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Well my head is still clouding....... |
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1 day 4 hrs confidence:
Add the subject Explanation: Sometimes it is acceptable to omit the subject by employing the passive voice, but here I would add an appropriate subject such as "the player" or "the device." Susan: The subject I was referring to was the one in the phrase where the player automatically switches over to the video clip playback screen. |
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