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  • February 28, 2014 at 12:02 pm #44227

    JoshuaJSlone
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    Late in chapter 3, one of the sentence enders given is かな／かなぁ. Is there anything to that second option other than being a weird spelling variant? It was my understanding that the little vowel characters would replace the vowel portion of the preceding character, but in this case it would be replacing an a with an a.

    February 28, 2014 at 9:44 pm #44236

    Joel
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    かなぁ is a sort of drawn-out trailing off vowel. It’s a little more… I guess wistful-sounding than just かな, kind of like how you’d go “I wonder…” and trail off in English.

    March 1, 2014 at 1:10 pm #44253

    JoshuaJSlone
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    Thanks. And interesting.

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