Talk:Suzumiya Haruhi:Volume1 Chapter1

Translator's Notes

Cookie tin

They drew their new seat positions from a ハトサブレの缶 (Hatosabure no KAN).

Kamakura is famous for a biscuit called Hatosabure (鳩サブレー), a biscuit shaped like a pigeon. Sold next to Kamakura station and a very popular omiyage (souvenir) among the Japanese.

Toshimaya is a shop that sells many kinds of sweets. "Hato" (鳩) means dove in English and "sabure" (サブレ) is "sable" in French. Children loved the many white pigeons in Kamakura, so the owner of Toshimaya named the cookie "hatosabure."

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--GDsMDDLFNGR 03:44, 27 May 2006 (PDT)

Open Translation Issues

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• ...May Arrives...

• Frankly, topics like what dreams people have, or how amazing or cute someone's pet is are, in my book, are some of the dullest topics in the world.

• But, just as I was still part of this class, there were always people who wanted to talk to the eyebrow-locking, mouth-scowling Haruhi.

• the only explanation I could give was that I was going nuts - by the time I realized it, I found myself talking to Suzumiya Haruhi.

• She always has this aspiration that she would soon meet the supernatural world that I abandoned long ago, and she enthusiastically tries to achieve her dream.

• "Kyon, we are good friends right...?"

• Reordering of a couple lines in chapter 1

• Nitpick over instant versus period of time

Resolved Issues

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• Suzumiya Haruhi's language

• "Normal humans don't interest me. If anyone here is an alien, from the future, from a different dimension, or an esper, then come find me! That is all."

• She didn't carry a lunch box, so I guessed she went to the cafeteria to enjoy her lunch

• I suddenly want to see her hairstyle on Sunday.

• It is as if to her, the guys are pumpkins or potato sacks, and she couldn't care less.

• What is that girl trying to pull?

• What the hell does Earth want?! If this continues I would get Yellow Fever!

• He lay his sports jacket on his shoulders; his shirt is wrinkled throughout his chest.

• My grandma was the one who first called me that.

• I pressed my numbing back head and turned around slowly.

• ...all the tables were moved out into the corridor...

• Taniguchi had probably experienced the same thing himself.

• People with average grades

• For a guy at least.

• At the end I got the second to last seat of the court-facing windowside column.

• ...released the 50-ton bomb

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