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Well, this is an arcade machine, and the setting is much more casual, so ikko is just as acceptable. The problem is, as GP pointed out, with ireru. I can think
by syockit 7y ago
Well, this is an arcade machine, and the setting is much more casual, so ikko is just as acceptable. The problem is, as GP pointed out, with ireru. I can think of some alternatives
1. koin wo ikko irete kudasai
2. koin wo ikko ireru no da!
3. koin ikko irete!
4. koin ikko ireru no!
5. koin ikko irenai?
6. koin ikko irenai ka?
7. koin wo ikko ireru to purei dekiru
- fenomas 7y agoThis whole thread misses the point - the "correct", natural-sounding text for the situation was simply "INSERT COIN". That's what ~every other machine of the era used, and what players expected.
- innocentoldguy 7y agoOf course, there are other correct alternatives in Japanese. That is not my point. The article makes two statements that are not correct: 1. "koin ikko ireru" is wrong because of the verb conjugation. The reason it is wrong is that "ikko" is something kids say to each other, or that parents say to their kids, and is weird/incorrect to say in a context where teens and adults are involved. It is also missing the "o" (or "wo," if you prefer). 2. "koin o ireru" is incorrect, again because of verb conjugation. There is nothing wrong with this phrase. Of course, you could say コインを入れてください, コインを一つ入れる, コインを一枚入れる, コインを入れる, Insert Coin, and other variations on that theme. My only point is that the two asserts above are incorrect in the article.
- matvore 7y agoI also didn't feel that anything was wrong with using 入れる instead of 入れてください. If it's already clear a process or instruction is being explained, sometimes you don't use a grammatical command - I've seen it before.