How to structure this rhetorical question?


I'm currently shopping together a dialogue between two people, where one
person repeats a previously used phrase in a mocking way.

> 彼女はいわゆる『真鍮のような』語っていますか？ Kanojo wa iwayuru "shinchū no yōna" katattei
> imasuka?

＂So she's supposed to be "Like Brass", you say?＂ or ＂She's "Like Brass", huh?＂
Along the lines of the above sentences, something like "I thought you said she
was strong?"

This was something I cobbled together after reading through a bunch of
dictionary terms, and I wanted to see if this made grammatical (or even
lingual) sense?

I'm terrible at reading kanji, so romaji is greatly appreciated if possible!




Your translation attempt has several grammar errors, but even after fixing
them, your sentence is only going to mean something along the lines of "Is she
telling the story commonly known as _Like Brass_?" いわゆる ("commonly known as
～", "what people call ～") is not something you need here. 語る is "to tell a
(long) story", which is not a right verb, either.

If you want to repeat someone else's statement in a mocking or surprised
manner, all you need is だと/だって/ですって:

  * [Is 「３人いるだと」 grammatical?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/5693/5010)
  * [Variations on sentence-ending 「〜だと!?」 (used when repeating something in surprise)](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/15498/5010)
  * [~たいだとか why is there a だ here?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/60014/5010)

> 彼女は「真鍮のよう」ですって？ (polite at least superficially)
>
> 「真鍮みたい」だって？ (informal)
>
> She is "like brass", you say?

(By the way, I have never seen such a simile as 真鍮のような人. Is this common in
other languages? Or is this "brass" supposed to mean something other than
[that yellow metal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass)?)




Your translation attempt has several grammar errors, but even after fixing
them, your sentence is only going to mean something along the lines of "Is she
telling the story commonly known as _Like Brass_?" いわゆる ("commonly known as
～", "what people call ～") is not something you need here. 語る is "to tell a
(long) story", which is not a right verb, either.

If you want to repeat someone else's statement in a mocking or surprised
manner, all you need is だと/だって/ですって:

  * [Is 「３人いるだと」 grammatical?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/5693/5010)
  * [Variations on sentence-ending 「〜だと!?」 (used when repeating something in surprise)](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/15498/5010)
  * [~たいだとか why is there a だ here?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/60014/5010)

> 彼女は「真鍮のよう」ですって？ (polite at least superficially)
>
> 「真鍮みたい」だって？ (informal)
>
> She is "like brass", you say?

(By the way, I have never seen such a simile as 真鍮のような人. Is this common in
other languages? Or is this "brass" supposed to mean something other than
[that yellow metal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass)?)

