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Question: I need a translation of this small Japanese document

lungtaworld — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:28:31 -0800

I cannot find a free translation of this small Japanese document, found in some inherited articles of my mother's. I hope someone can help me.

By: Plug1

Plug1 — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:33:31 -0800

Try this website.

By: chez shoes

chez shoes — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:55:50 -0800

My kanji is failing me today, but I believe it's a warning/notice about an FM unit on a transceiver.

By: pocams

pocams — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:56:21 -0800

CAUTION

This transceiver incorporates an optional FM unit

By: Meagan

Meagan — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:56:31 -0800

Plug1, you can't use Babelfish when translating an image, only text.

From what I've been able to discern, It's pretty much an informational insert you'd find when buying some type of electonic device, perhaps a Walkman or Minidisc player (it only says "transceiver"). I believe it's basically saying "this transceiver includes an FM module". Hopefully another native speaker can correct me if I'm wrong.

By: splice

splice — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:58:52 -0800

I have some basic japanese skills

Original japanese:
ご注意
このトランシーバーには、オプションのFMユニットが組み込まれております.

Original romanized japanese:
gochuui
kono transhiibaa ni ha, opushon no fm yunitto ga kumigomarete orimasu.

A somewhat literal translation:
Notice
About this tranceiver, the fm unit option has been integrated.

Seems to say something about the FM option being integrated with this transceiver unit.

By: tyllwin

tyllwin — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:11:26 -0800

Thank you, splice. I was getting a headache trying to figure out "kumi"

By: ducksauce

ducksauce — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:57:03 -0800

tyllwin, It's not just "kumi", it's "kumikomu": to include or insert.

By: ducksauce

ducksauce — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:01:31 -0800

Oh, and I would say "an optional FM unit is included with this transceiver", making this a warning because the optional FM unit might get lost, but my Japanese isn't great so I could be wrong.

My translation is different from pocams because "incorporates" could mean that the FM unit is built into this model.

Maybe I'm just splitting hairs, though. See disclaimer above.

By: ducksauce

ducksauce — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:04:46 -0800

Also, tyllwin, I don't know how advanced you are or what tools you have at your disposal, but I recommend JWPCE with Edict for figuring out strange kanji that you might come across. You can use the SKIP lookup method, which is helpful if you can't figure out a radical (or never learned them (I didn't)). For this combination you could just bring up the SKIP lookup window and type in 1-6-5. The root would be in the first list of choices. Then you'd just double click on that and look it up in Edict with the "starts with" option, and kumikomu would come right up.

By: splice

splice — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:23:20 -0800

Ack, two small mistakes in my romanization:

toranshiibaa, not transhiibaa

kumikomarete, not kumigomarete

By: lungtaworld

lungtaworld — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:24:55 -0800

Many thanks to all posters! Mystery solved! It has nothing to do with the contents of the box which contained small silver ornaments. Now I have another mystery.

By: tyllwin

tyllwin — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:08:57 -0800

Just a beginner, and it's mostly a question of recognizing the forms: I kept seeing that first radical wrong and kept reading 組 as 租 because the printed version isn't quite the same as the dictionary that's close to hand...