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This is something I never came across in a grammar book, but in everyday life twice, and that’s just today.
I looked at a picture of a dragon wearing a scarf (don’t ask), and a Japanese person wrote underneath it: ドラゴンが、あのマフラーを！
What?
Also, I looked for a movie adaptation of the famous book “Flowers For Algernon”, and apart from the fact that there’s gonna be a new movie soon, which is awesome news, there seems to be a Japanese version called this: アルジャーノンに花束を
So why the を at the end? What function does it have?
I’d never seen that before.
It seems to be just omitting an implied verb; “wear” in the first case and maybe “give” in the second. This is, of course, just a guess. Check out some more examples: http://jisho.org/sentences?jap=%E3%82%92%E3%80%82&eng=It sounds like theres more to it, but there’s really not, I think. Its just implied, like シャワーを
I’ve only heard it in a few cases in my life too.
First was happy new year. よいおとしを
And have a good weekend/holiday よいお休みをBoth situations seem to mean have.
I think saying お無事を！ Is pretty common too, so just ‘be safe’
same with お楽しみに～～♡ , or お大事に～
We can illustrate this with an English example. Basically finish the sentence:
Where are my Lucky ________?!
Dude, what the ______?
“Hasta la vista _______”
As you can see you just know what goes there and as it relates to Japanese, its just shorter. Think about all the times that a Japanese person would ALWAYS have to finish their sentence. Mad awkward.
Also here’s another example:
[3/8/2011 12:20:11 AM] missingno15: で、toshさんは外国を勉強してるの？
[3/8/2011 12:20:13 AM] missingno15: 英語？
[3/8/2011 12:20:39 AM] tosh: 英語だよー。
[3/8/2011 12:20:53 AM] tosh: 英語がふつうにはなせるようになりたい！
[3/8/2011 12:21:00 AM] tosh: アメリカにも旅行にいきたいし。
[3/8/2011 12:21:53 AM] missingno15: そのために英語を？国際旅行？
[3/8/2011 12:22:27 AM] tosh: そうだよ！アメリカのドラマ、映画、大好きだしね
[3/8/2011 12:22:35 AM] missingno15: いいなSo in short, I would kinda think of it as just like “finish the sentence”.
But what do I know, I’m just a beginner ヽ(´ー｀)ノ
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