Well, I finally made it through Yotsubato ch23. It was a real slog, especially the middle part with all its fishing terminology.
Incidentally, it's so easy to forget that Miura is a girl. During the middle part, I thought it was playing with stereotypes about boys and girls, by having Miura get grossed out by all the fishing stuff, while Ena, a girl, is just fine with it. Then I remembered that Miura is actually a girl too, despite looking like a boy.
今焼ぎ始めた
ばっかじゃ
ねーか
Is the bakka here a variant on bakari?
Also, it's kind of frustrating how similar a lot of different Japanese things sound to an English speaker, with subtle vowel changes making a big difference in meaning. For example, -ta bakari and -te bakari mean completely different things. As another example, I noticed Utaco say "nigate" while talking about her poor English skills. I initially assumed it was the -te form of "to escape", but I looked it up anyway and found that it is actually a completely unrelated word. What a difference one little vowel makes.
人の話聞け
NEXT TIME, LISTEN TO ME
The Japanese seems like it just means "listen to people" here. Could someone explain this please?
みうらが夏休み
どっこも連れてって
もらってないって
言うからさ
Wow, a
nested quotation. I don't think I've seen that before. As if understanding quotations wasn't hard enough already!
俺が思い出作りに
一肌脱いだってわけよ
The meaning of "一肌脱い" seems to be completely divorced from the component kanji. I wonder where it came from.
ハワイいいなー
私まだ海外って
行ったことないもん
I WISH I COULD GO TO HAWAII. I'VE NEVER BEEN OVERSEAS
I'm guessing the "I wish" part is implied by the って, and the part after that is a whole new sentence?
でもハワイって
べタじゃねェ?
Jisho says that べタ can mean both "cliched" and "Betta fish". In fact, it lists the later as a "common word", but not the former. I wonder if the use of a fish name here was meant as a pun. Probably not, but it's still interesting.
KAME-HAMEHA IS THE NAME OF THE FIRST KING OF THE HAWAII
I KNOW THAT!
... well I didn't. I thought it was just a Dragon Ball reference.
Also, are they seriously just eating whole roasted fish, scales and all? That seems disgusting to me. I had no idea that was something people actually did.