Messages one does not wish to received from one's hotel in Japan

[rachelmanija]

The reservation in September which it asks of is nothing. Is it all right?

Free Japanese chocolate to anyone who knows what that means! I replied to say, um, what? And also to reiterate our reservation.

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[homasse.livejournal.com]

My brain just went asplodey trying to figure that out. ASPLODEY. I bet you MONEY they used the craptastic Yahoo!Japan translator for that, and the Y!J makes babelfish look like the height of nuanced translation.

My guess is they are saying the reservation is OK, mainly because there are no apologies. And also, Japanese tends to default to the answer being "NO", so even if something is fine, they confirm--the "Is it all right?" smacks of これで宜しいでしょうか? before everything is taken as all systems go. They're expecting token confirmation of the dates and all.