Japanese Language things

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One of poet Ishigaki Rin’s best-known works is “Hyōsatsu” (Nameplates), written, she explained, at a time when “I had shifted from being one among many to one within myself.”

Nameplates

When you live in a place nothing comes close to putting the nameplate up by yourself.

When you rest in a space the nameplate another attaches never works out.

In the hospital they added Miss to the card on the sickroom door Miss Ishigaki Rin.

If I stay at an inn there’ll be no name on the door but by and by I’ll be in a cremation oven and they’ll slam the door tight and hang a tag that says Ishigaki Rin, the Honorable— how will I protest then?

Miss the Honorable a hex on them both,

when you live in a place nothing comes close to attaching the nameplate with your own hand.

猫 (cat) and 背 (back)

bent back, hunchback

猫舌 （ねこじた）

舌（tongue)

dislike of very hot food or drink, being that person who waits till it cools cause they just can not handle hot stuff

猫の額 (ねこのひたい）

額（forehead), literally cat’s forehead

tiny area, tiny surface

猫かぶり (猫かぶり)

かぶる to put on (one’s head)

Feigned innocence or naivete, ( think of it like putting on one’s head a mask to feign innocence) 

猫に小判  (ねこにこばん）

小判 （koban, an old gold coin from the Edo period)

Casting your pearls before swine. What use is a koban to a cat? They couldn’t appreciate it (=^ェ^=)

しんごうむし

running a red light, jaywalking

I got no problem with kanji and hiragana. Katakana letters just make No. Sense.

I get that it’s useful and all.

I just don’t like it.

Source

バケツの中身はなんじゃろな→おいしーー。

「声かけてもらえると助かる」”I’d appreciate it if you could call me.”

〜てもらえると助かる (~てもらえるとたすかる) “I’d appreciate it if you could ~/it’d be helpful if you could ~”

This grammar point is a really polite way to ask someone to do something for you.

The 〜てもらえる part is from the potential form of one of the grammar points for receiving favors 〜てもらう  So basically もらう (to receive) –> もらえる (to be able to receive) 〜てくれる can be used too but 〜てもらう has a more thankful feel to it and the verb 助かる means “to be saved” or “to be helped”