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I've come across the following dialogue:

> 「シグナムはお風呂どうします？」
>
> 「私は今夜はいい。明日の朝にするよ」
>
> 「 **お風呂好きが珍しいじゃん** 」

An unofficial, but to my mind high-quality translation offered something like

> "That's rare for a bath-lover like you."

for the last the line, and going by context, that's the only right translation
I can think of.

However, going by grammar, wouldn't it translate to

> "Bath-lovers are rare."

?

Of course, this statement feels out of place and is also not true (there are
plenty of bath-lovers).

My Japanese friend translated it to

> "You are rare."

claiming that お風呂好き would _directly_ refer to シグナム.

He interprets が properly (as a subject marker), but it sounds even more wrong.

Assuming that the unofficial translation I provided first is correct, why is が
used, rather than something like にとって? Wouldn't you normally use にとって to
express those kinda things?
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particle-が subjects
Not subject despite が?
> A:「お風呂好きが珍しいじゃん」  
>  B:「お風呂好きが **お風呂に行｛い｝かないのは/お風呂に入｛はい｝らないのは** 珍しいじゃん」

"A" is an abbreviated expression from "B".  
In this case, the substantial contents of the phrase itself is omitted. This
kind of abbreviation is frequently used in daily conversations like:

> 1-1 あなたのようなお風呂｛ふろ｝嫌｛ぎら｝いが珍｛めずら｝しいね。  
>  2-1 お風呂嫌いが珍しいね。  
>  3-1 勉強{べんきょう}嫌いが珍しいね。  
>  4-1 お肉｛にく｝好｛ず｝きが変｛へん｝だね or お肉好きがおかしいね。

These abbreviated expressions correspond respectively to the following perfect
expressions like:

> 2-1 あなたのようなお風呂嫌いが **お風呂に入るのは** 珍しいね。  
>  _It is unusual for a person who dislikes a bath like you, to take a bath._  
>  2-2 同上｛どうじょう｝ Same as above  
>  3-2 あなたのような勉強嫌いが（ **今日｛きょう｝に限｛かぎ｝って一所｛いっしょ｝懸命｛けんめい｝** ） **勉強するというのは** 珍しいね。  
>  _It is unusual for you, who usually don't study, to study (hard only for
> today)_.  
>  4-2 あなたのようなお肉好きが（ **今日に限って** ） **お肉を残｛のこ｝すのは** 変だね/おかしいね。  
>  _It is strange for a meat-lover like you to leave the meat behind (only for
> today)_.

These abbreviated expressions are used more than perfect ones in everyday
conversation, and the latter ones are taken even verbose.

After these study, I could say only C is correct but the rest are incorrect
among the following attempts shown in your question.

> C: "That's rare for a bath-lover like you."  
>  D: "Bath-lovers are rare."  
>  E: "You are rare."

I feel sympathy for non-native people studying Japanese, because in addition
to frequent abbreviations of subjects in Japanese, there are omissions of such
an important part in a sentence like this case.
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