Editing Talk:Tsukumodo:Volume 2 Silence (section)

==TL questions==

'''"You don't want 'something'. You want 'a thing'."'''

(is she saying this in general (“people want something”) or referring to kadokura?)
: She's referring to Kadokura. I slightly altered that passage now, but the wordplay still doesn't come across as well as in Japanese.

'''"Certainly. I'm sorry, t..."'''

(what word is the person trying to finish?)
: Probably I was meaning to write "too".

'''<nowiki><span style="color: white">What's going on?</span></nowiki>'''

(you made the text invisible. How was this handled in the jap version, I wonder)
: It was invisible, too. I made it white so that the space taken is equal to that of the actual sentence -- I changed it, though, since it's not so important.

'''"That's what I've been telling you.<u> Any sound vanishes from the region it reflects</u>. The sounds from outside are completely deflected, and no sound can be produced within the area of reflection. In short, it creates a zone of complete silence."'''

(not how I usually see this constructed. so the underlined sentence means: “the mirror effects a region, so sound vanishes from that region” ? or is it about sound in general? or smth else entirely?)
: I rephrased it. Might be a bit easier to understand now. In simple terms, if you can see yourself in the mirror, your inside the region it affects, i.e. there is no sound. 
'''I deliberately slammed the door shut. Even that sound resounded in my ears.'''

(I’d say if he was bothered by a sound like smth falling upstairs, then he shouldn’t be surprised that the sound of a door being slammed right in front of him wouldn’t be pleasant to his ears. So why the “even that” in the beginning of the second sentence?
: Fair point, but that's the literal translation. I slightly altered that passage in a way that makes more sense and still catches the nuance.

'''I looked at the "Mirror of Serenity". It was no doubt there.'''<--EEE: is he confirming that it's still there and no one has taken it? -grrarr-->

(yes, I want to know the answer to the question grarr posed here as well…)--[[User:idiffer|<span style="color:darkred;font:bold 10pt kristen itc">idif</span>]][[User talk:idiffer|<span style="color:darkblack;font:bold 10pt kristen itc">fer</span>]] 15:21, 16 September 2014 (CDT)
: I suppose that he's confirming that it exists, that it belongs to him. That it wasn't a dream.