My First Japanese Sentence

[mindstalk]

It might even be correct. Transliteration:

Ruuku, watashi ga anata no otousan desu.

Yeah, I'm a geek. It was prompted by the study group leader showing us his katakana for "lightsaber". I'm not sure if otousan should have the 'u', or be 'chichi' instead in this usage, or if 'anata no' is the best way of saying 'your'. Or if it'd have the same emotional impact as the original.

Comments

Arigatou!

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

I'd been thinking later that 'desu' was too polite for the rest of the sentence, and that 'da' would be better. I wouldn't have thought of such a pruned version, though.

I've been thinking Japanese is the Perl of human languages. All that default variable use, and there being too many ways of saying something.

Re: Arigatou!

[unforth.livejournal.com]

In general, say it in as few words as possible. It'll sound better, and actual Japanese people will laugh at you less. :)

Re: Arigatou!

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just couldn't see dropping that much context.

How would "Luke, you are my father" differ? If one imagines an older Luke and a more unknown speaker, to eliminate context effects.