69898
The premise is a young girl's entire family claim to be in service to 龍神 as
fortune tellers. They own the Hoju Jewel which allows them to have clairvoyant
powers and they use their station to connect the dragon world to the human
world. Their eccentric way of going about explaining this to her embarrasses
her so this is just a sentence relaying to the reader what she's been taught.
She doesn't seem to believe in any of it.

> その龍が神様だ、なんていうのもウソくさいし、うちみたいな田舎の占い屋が、人間界の代表であることもウソくさい。

My translation:

> "That dragon is a god - this is what I'd call a sham, as is some rural
> fortuneteller being the god's representative for the human realm."

I'm not too sure about the なんていう + のも. I want to keep the main idea intact.
I'm learning how to translate and localize text. A breakdown of this sentence
would be extremely helpful.
CC BY-SA 4.0
2019-08-04T20:41:10.343
69891
2022-05-28T02:10:24.317
2022-05-28T02:10:24.317
30454
34911
question
grammar translation
How does なんていう + のも function in this sentence?
A more literal translation of the first half of the sentence is:

> 〖「その龍が神様だ」なんて言うの〗もウソくさい  
>  〖Saying "That dragon is a god"〗 is contrived, (as well as...)

  * なんて is used in place of quoatative-と. なんて is used to make light of the marked part. See: [Usage of なんて and なんか as emphasis](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/421/5010) Simply put, なんて言う is a nuanced version of と言う.
  * 言う is just "to say".
  * の is a nominalizer.
  * も is "also". (used in relation to the second half of the entire sentence)
  * 嘘くさい is almost a single-word adjective, "contrived", "false-sounding".

Your translation seems basically okay, but "what I'd call a sham" might be too
strong. The sentence is saying "hard to believe", not "impossible to believe".
CC BY-SA 4.0
2019-08-05T03:52:22.680
69898
2019-08-05T04:34:12.067
2019-08-05T04:34:12.067
5010
5010
69891
answer