Maybe this English-Japanese pair is a bit misleading. What do you think?

Can someone please help me understand what the English sentence means.

Of all people, I met Tom.

I take it that it indicates a kind of surprise at meeting someone somewhere.

Thanks guys

You are welcome.

It's really only understandable from the Japanese. :-)

> It's really only understandable from the Japanese. :-)

I can't read Japanese, but I've stolen Ergulis' Czech translation :)

I've unlinked the Japanese sentence.

Here is the comment that was left by JimBreen on that sentence.



I think that probably no longer matches the English sentence.

"Who should I meet but Tom?" usually means that they were surprised to meet Tom. Something like "I was in Paris last week, and as I was walking past the Louvre who should I meet but Tom!".

The new sentence seems to mean "Who should I meet other than Tom?", in contexts such as "To resolve this issue who should I meet other than Tom?"


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