Nani mo Wakaranai - Vol. 1 Ch. 16 - Goal and Destination

[naofummi]

i understand nothing but this is fun

 

[KeiosKod]

Wonder what Myaa is thinking whenever MC starts blabbing to himself out loud like in this chapter.

 

[detarameMangadex]

Thanks for the chapter :D

This chapter confirms that Miyamutuu brought Ryouta to the sci-fi place because he was curious about what the unknown device was used for. Turns out, it is probably a power core, and I imagine we will see the unknown monument it powers in action next chapter. Also, a computer...? Exciting stuff!

Anyway, this chapter's usage of the Myaasanese language completely broke my mind and is making me question several of my assumptions; am I going off-track? In fact, I am so lost that I am unsure if I can even begin to comment on this chapter... Oh well. I will start by try to breaking down the sentence "nima tyui aii (actually tyuiai) suimu." on page 2.

I believe this is the first time we see "tyui aii" and "suimu" right next to each other. "tyui aii" coming between "nima" ("go") and "suimu" (probably "to/with me") is strange, and suggests that both "tyui" and "aii" can be .

This sentence also solidifies the meaning of "suimu" as "to/with me," or at least something related to the speaker's vicinity. Every time Miyamutuu uses this word, she is beckoning Ryouta; when she does not use this word, she tends to be referring to another object.

A much more interesting sentence is "ii sui munuti nima tyui aii..." which Miyamutuu said on page 7 while asking Ryouta to carry the unknown device.

From this, I think we can confirm the meaning of "ii sui;" it is analogous to "this" in English and "kore [wa]" in Japanese – as I think we all suspected. This previously appeared in Chapter 13, when Miyamutuu pointed at the tyuoion and said "ii sui miu tyuoion!" which obviously meant something like "are you crazy!? This is a f*cking tyuoion!"

"Munuti" is obviously a conjugated verb, probably meaning something like "carry" or "take." The interesting takeaway here is how its placement in this sentence connected the dots for me about several huge aspects of Myaasanese.

Firstly, the consistent appearance of verbs ending with different "-i" characters implies that Myaasanese verb conjugation works by shifting the final character of a verb stem to a specific sound row, then possibly adding verb endings, like how it is done in Japanese. Some other examples we have seen thus far include:

• "Niteni:" "to come"
• "Mejii:" "to call / to be named"
• "Nanipii:" no idea lol

There is another group of verbs that seems to be conjugated like "-uu," but this might just be another tense, so I will not come to a conclusion just yet. I am inclined to believe that they are just a different verb group, though.

Secondly, both "munuti" and "nima" are verbs that refer to two separate actions (taking the unknown device & getting going), yet "ii sui munuti nima tyui aii..." has no conjunction. This suggests that Myaasanese omits conjunctions in certain situations. It reminds me of the Japanese -te verb form, which allows multiple verbs to be linked sequentially and their tense decided by the final verb: "do A, and then do B."

Anyway; back to the sentence as a whole. I still have no idea what "tyui" or "aii" could mean. A very stupid hypothesis is that the latter is like "kudasai," which just adds politeness to a request; after all, this word has only been used in requests. It has been placed just about everywhere in a sentence and is confusing me so much. Surely Myaasanese doesn't have keigo, right?? As for the former word, I am just wildly guessing that it means "now," but this does not fit that well.

That is all I have for this chapter. What I wrote was barely coherent, but I do not care, because my brain hurts.

On a side note, I found this neat Japanese blog that appears to also be analyzing Myaasanese; they call the language dodado-go for some reason, probably because of page 8 of Chapter 11, where the Myaasanese syllabary is referred to as "dodado." Unfortunately, I do not understand Japanese; if you can, though, why not check this blog out?

I figured I should start linking to my previous chapter comments, so people can follow my process. Here is my rather unfruitful analysis of last chapter.

 

[sephtis]

I thought mabye she'd put them in stasis for a few centuries when Ryouta's foot had that imprint under it, I thought it was mold or somthing, not sand

 

[Lunkli]

This chapter definitely makes it seem like he was spot on with his battery theory, huh? Which just makes you wonder if that was just a lucky guess, or if he was able to guess correctly because he subconsciously already knew. I'm kinda leaning towards the latter right now, because honestly that thing looks nothing like a battery when it's just laying on the ground the way the original was. So if that's the case, the question is: Why did he already know this?

He's having trouble remembering his life in Japan, so maybe these things were commonplace there, and he knew what they were before losing his memories? Alternatively, maybe he's not actually from Japan and is from a different culture that had several of these batteries? Or maybe the theory about him being an artificial construct is correct, and he's been preprogrammed with the knowledge of what they are? It's hard to say right now, I think.

 

[albirew]

Anyway; back to the sentence as a whole. I still have no idea what "tyui" or "aii" could mean. A very stupid hypothesis is that the latter is like "kudasai," which just adds politeness to a request; after all, this word has only been used in requests.

i believe the latter could also be an imperative particule, not as kudasai "please do this", but as shinasai "do this asap" as she's bossing him around (not as someone superior, but as someone who don't like wasting time)...

 

[Bibliothecarius]

Thanks for the chapter!!!

 

[Onaner]

Anyone knows where i can get all the raws? ive been looking in the usual places, but nothing so far.

 

[SteveJust]

I don't think that's a "temple of fire" so much as some of those crystals on the spire broke and now it's leaking.

 

[Samurai_Kyo]

That battery is probably one of the villages primary export. They are here to trade. The village don't seem to have much going for it, but somehow has healthy trade. Myaa-san might be holding up their economy, locating and warping helpers as they loot ruins for batteries. The one in the village had no charge, so it was left there.

This world appears to have designated warp points as well. That's why they warped to a platform in the jungle and the gate near the city, instead of somewhere closer. That would mean the MC started at the village warp point, the underground chamber.

 

[Pj2]

Or maybe the theory about him being an artificial construct is correct,

Maybe he is being influence in some way by a third party? but I'm pretty sure he is organic because of the muscle ache he got after running away from the dinosaurs.

 

[Chizan]

I'd be more curious why they don't live in the jungle with its richness of resources considering the current state of where their village is, or even otherwise make any use of it(at least as far we know)? What's the 'something' stopping them?

 

[Imryse]

Looks kinda like time travel to me maybe

all teleportation is, by definition, time travel.

 

[Carn109]

It looks like these square structures are like warp gates
I wonder what got Miyamutuu so concerned when the tyuoion hopped on the battery thing?

 

[mrboxeater]

why did she look so suspiciously at the dragon? did he help with the teleportation?
i thought she was living there and was gettin Ryu to help her move house to the village lol

 

[wakanana]

Starting to look like a dying world scenario. Elf girl may be a Gandalf figure that keeps things running.

MC may be a biorobot. Otherwise, he could be a person of the old tech world, assuming they made themselves super strong and such.

 

[Figtree22]

I love this manga's art style

 

[MagnaDrake]

They didnt come back to the right place, did they?

edit: oh im an idiot thats the monument theyve been seeing from the village.

 

[DirtEater21]

Thank you for the translation

 

[mgRdr]

all teleportation is, by definition, time travel.

All travel is time travel