Timeline for Usage of "から” in "大学からアメリカ行ったんですけど"
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| Nov 24 at 0:29 | comment | added | Leebo | I'm saying something like "moved to America" or "left for America" is probably closer than "went to America" but that doesn't involve parsing it differently. | |
| Nov 24 at 0:11 | comment | added | Leebo | I wouldn't, no. I don't think the Japanese sentence needs rewriting. All I'm saying is "went" might typically give the impression of a short trip, but I don't think that's the case. | |
| Nov 24 at 0:01 | comment | added | Leebo | Perhaps it would help to think of 大学 not as the place, not as a physical school, so 大学から is not "from the school (as a place)" but "from the time of entering university." And 行く isn't simply "went." She's talking about attending university in the US in the rest of the bit. | |
| Nov 23 at 23:50 | comment | added | Leebo | Firstly, I probably wouldn't translate it as "I went to America when I was in college." Second, I just don't see the Japanese version and English version in the video as mutually exclusive. They're both valid ways to describe the same situation depending on what happened. | |
| Nov 23 at 21:54 | comment | added | Leebo | Is this comedian fluent in both languages? In that case, I'm not even sure it can be called translation, just two versions of the same story, told once in Japanese and once in English, in a certain sense. But even so, they're not so far apart in meaning that there's a major problem or anything. Comedy requires a certain economy of language and rhythm, so it's easy to imagine why someone would choose an expression that isn't the literal grammatical equivalent of the other language's expression. | |
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