“People laugh amongst themselves at the silver cover"

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The Japanese sentence “Sirokane-no su-wo hitobito tuki-sirohu,” means “People laugh amongst themselves at the silver cover".what is silver cover? What does the sentence mean?

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

iasadih The Japanese sentence “Sirokane-no su-wo hitobito tuki-sirohu,” means “People laugh amongst themselves at the silver cover".what is silver cover? What does the sentence mean?

I think you will have to ask a Japanese person. "Silver cover" has no particular significance in English.

Iasadih · Answer

I see. So it is probably unimportant, because the sentence is addressed to English speakers.

TY

CalifJim · Answer

iasadihWhat is the silver cover?

It is the cover of something not mentioned, and it is made of silver. It could refer to the lid of a cooking vessel, just to make one guess, and apparently it looks bizarre enough to elicit laughter among those who view it.

In all the cases where I've seen this (Google), the Japanese sentence is only mentioned as an interesting grammatical example for consideration; it is never actually used within a text.

Some of the sites you can find this on give the more literal translation "silver cover people poke each other", and use it to illustrate, among other things, noun compounding in the Japanese language.

CJ

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