Relating parts of sentences


> エリナ：窓の外に見えるの皆シットル？ Erina: Couldn't the rest of people look out of the
> window?

> タダシ：そうだろう たぶん  
>  Tadashi: Yeah, maybe.

CONTEXT: After taking a flight and stopped in a station Tadashi is looking at
a bunch of people in that station, then Erina ask him -what I guess- is
something like "the rest of people did look out of the window?" then Tadashi
answers "yeah, maybe", but I'm not sure how 皆 is related to シットル.

(rough translation attempt)

> タダシ：このディスク。。。やっぱ このフライトレコーダーのじゃないかな  
>  Tadashi: This disk... It seems that it didn't belong to the black box.

> エリナ：うーん。。。 でも何でわざわざわかりにくい所へかくしてあるわけ？  
>  Erina: Yeah... but why they wanted to be this disk hard to read? did they
> have something to hide?

> タダシ：フライトレコーダーのだったとしたらさ こう何か とくべつなひこうきろくが のこされてるとか！ (what does こう何か mean?)。。。
> っていうのは？  
>  Tadashi: If this were a black box (...) this special register left here!
> Don't you think?

> エリナ：タダシにしては まあまあの せんね  
>  Erina: Being mad is not like you.

> タダシ：あのさ。。。！  
>  Tadashi: Sorry...!

CONTEXT: after looking inside a war robot, Tadashi and Erina founded a strange
disk and an empty black box, then Tadashi says that that disk may not be for
the black box, then Erina ask about the purpose then Tadashi gets mad. I can't
relate the third sentence because of the こう何か.




シットル is dialectal version of 知{し}っている and means to know. Translation is thus:

> 窓の外に見えるの 皆シットル？
>
> Do you know all the people out there?

If it were the する verb it would have been written しとる

じゃないかな means something like "I wonder if it can't be", it is thus not an
actual negation of the sentence in this case.

> このディスク。。。 やっぱ このフライトレコーダーのじゃないかな
>
> This disk, I wonder if it doesn't belong to this flight recorder? (note:
> depending on intonation, it could also mean what you are writing, but from
> context I would go with the positive version)

For the reply, you are misunderstanding it at several places:

> うーん。。。 でも何でわざわざわかりにくい所へかくしてあるわけ？

Let's split it up: でも何で = but why

わざわざ = go through the trouble of

わかりにくい所へ = わかりにくい means difficult to know and modifies the noun 所, so
difficult to know place

かくしてある = is hidden

わけ？ = nuances the question (in English I'm using "would" instead of "did" for
the translation because of this)

> Yea... but why would they go through the trouble of hiding it in such a
> difficult to find spot?

.

> フライトレコーダー **の** だったとしたらさ こう何か とくべつなひこうきろくが のこされてるとか！ (what does こう何か mean?)
> 。。。 っていうのは？

First of all, notice the の particle after the flight recorder, it is written
in possessive form and refers to the disk. Thus the disk in the subject, not
the flight recorder.

こう is just a filling word, similar to "like" in this case (it could also be
that he is demonstrating something while speaking, and referring to that)

> If this belongs to the flight recorder, maybe it could be like a special
> flight recording or something!
>
> タダシにしては まあまあ のせん ね

Here I think the sentence should be split like this instead. のせん should then
once again be a dialectal verb form, from のせない, but I am not really sure
exactly what is meant by this sentence.

