please translate this sentence for me

[EOS]

表示我还是没有落伍嘛。某人的作品…但我真辣么汉子吗?为什么是辣句话。

Thank you

[chenbenson]

i think this is not a right chinese sentence, where do u find this sentence?

[Nathan Mao]

 辣 is either the wrong character, or some slang I have never encountered at all. 

 

Trying to work around that character, a very rough translation would be:

 

"Express I still haven't fallen behind.  Someone's work...But I really _______ Chinese characters?  Why is it ______ sentence?"

 

It seems like very informal speech, perhaps a fragment or dialogue close to stream of consciousness.  Who should express that I still haven't fallen behind?  Me?  Or someone else responsible for my progress?

Need some more context to make translation more precise.

[OneEye]

辣 is standing in for 那. It's a pretty common shift in some regional accents, and typing it out like that is probably done intentionally for humor. I have a friend who types 如果...了話(的話).

 

Not 汉字, but 汉子.

 

Depending on context, perhaps:

 

"Tell them* I haven't fallen behind. Someone's work...but am I really that manly†? Why that sentence? (or maybe "why did you/they/he/she say that?")"

 

* Or "I say," or the like. There's no subject or object so it isn't clear. It would likely be clear in context.

† I'm guessing here, because I'm not very familiar with the use of 汉子.

 

Without context, that's the best I've got.

[Nathan Mao]

辣 for 那?

 

Seriously?  That represents a significant obscuring of coherence.

 

Which regions make that shift?

[OneEye]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. It's a shift in pronunciation from n- to l- and vice versa. Any character pronounced là would have worked.

 

I'm not sure which particular regions make that shift, but I do know it's common in heavily Minnan-influenced accents in Taiwan, and presumably China.

 

n- and l- (and d-, like my friend above) all have the same point of articulation and none are aspirated, so they're actually really close phonetically. Such a shift isn't really all that surprising.

[Lu]

Nanjing is famous for changing n- to l- and vice versa. Henan does it too (which is fun when you go there as a 荷兰人), as does Hunan (Fulan). Perhaps even Sichuan? I've been misheard there, tourguide thought I said I lived in 河南. There's probably more regions that make this shift, it's not uncommon.

 

I don't think I've heard d- for l- before, which regions do that?