[romaji and translation] GREEN

[ImpactBreaker]

Originally Posted by waterballoon

Actually I would use "keeping", it sounds a little more grammatically correct to me.

If you look at the whole sentence, keeping will not look right. It has to make sense with this:

"Just like me who is afraid of the warmth
And keep myself away from anything leading to hope"


I'm not sure which would be right though: keep or keeps, though I have a feeling "keeps" would look a bit awkward.

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

If you look at the whole sentence, keeping will not look right. It has to make sense with this:

"Just like me who is afraid of the warmth
And keep myself away from anything leading to hope"


I'm not sure which would be right though: keep or keeps, though I have a feeling "keeps" would look a bit awkward.

It's a tough call, but if you use "keeps", I would write it like this:

"Just like me who is afraid of the warmth
And keeps themselves away from anything leading to hope"

Originally Posted by chocopockymaster

That was sarcasm. Let me put it in plain English: Your snappy comments, not just here, but in every other thread where you think you are the person with the ultimately correct opinion on the subject, are not appreciated.

In general I haven't had a problem with Melrose's posts at all, at least from what I have read (I don't really read every thread), but that one just kind of threw me because my post really didn't have anything negative directed at Melrose at all.

[crea_spain]

Thank you very much for the beautiful translation masa.

Ayu is a poet, beautiful & sweet lyrics ^^

[kuri♥ayu]

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

If you look at the whole sentence, keeping will not look right. It has to make sense with this:

"Just like me who is afraid of the warmth
And keep myself away from anything leading to hope"


I'm not sure which would be right though: keep or keeps, though I have a feeling "keeps" would look a bit awkward.

"keep" would be the correct way i'm pretty sure. because she's talking about herself so it would be like

"i keep myself away..." not "i keeps myself away..."

[erin1m]

Keeping is still grammatically correct. It really doesn't make a difference--they're both correct and mean the same thing. In regular sentence structure, it looks like this:

"Just like me, who is afraid of the warmth, keeping myself away from anything leading to hope."

"Just like me, who is afraid of the warmth, and keep myself away from anything leading to hope."

It's just a matter of personal preference. I prefer the first one because it's slightly more concise, but some people probably find the second one clearer.

[ImpactBreaker]

Originally Posted by erin1m

Keeping is still grammatically correct. It really doesn't make a difference--they're both correct and mean the same thing. In regular sentence structure, it looks like this:

"Just like me, who is afraid of the warmth, keeping myself away from anything leading to hope."

"Just like me, who is afraid of the warmth, and keep myself away from anything leading to hope."

Oh, that's true. I can see it now. Thanks for pointing it out.

About the comparisons, can you guys just stop it? We should be grateful to everyone who attempted doing a translation. We should be able to read, appreciate and be thankful for them. At least for us who know absolutely nothing or very little of japanese, which I believe is the majority here.