Re: Even in those days, there was love

From: muchan (usenet_at_usenet.usenet)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:52:58 +0200

Tanno Gerritsen wrote:

>
> Thanks very much! I have been pondering again about this little sentence these days, and my mistake was probably assuming that love was something "unexpected" in the context of the story. Despite
his unusual dream, the narrator (and the reader) are supposed to consider that love exists, even in those barbarous cirumstances, so fortunately, there being love doesn't come as unexpected as I
thought it did... :-)
>
> That's one of the things I find so interesting about Japanese: this sort of subtleties that are explicitly expressed in the language by the use of particles.
>

In reallity(?), the conflict like "は vs が" doesn't exist gramatically. :)
They are different layer of sentense structure, and は is not used only
for Subjects... problem is only when the Theme is also a Subject (with は)
or the the Subject is not the Theme (with が). People who speak SVO language
are conscious about what is the Subject, but often unconscious about
TC (Theme-Comment) structure (well, sorry I forgot this word Comment so
used Description) often present but hidden in their own language.

Whenever you wonder about "は vs が",
1) consider (Subject)が as modifier, or complement to the predicate
2) If you can paraphrase "Talking about (Subject), it ..." then use は.

> BTW: I'd like to discuss an off-topic topic with you. Could you please mail me your real e-mail address? Unless it's really usenet at usenet dot usenet, of course. ;-)
>
> Tanno
>

I've been getting too much spams, and stopped using my real address
on the usenet. And I'm still getting too much spams (more than 100 a day)
so this hiding either doesn't have much effect, or it was too late.
The real address is muchan@promikra.si as it was since 1995...
I have another hidden address which is not contaminated yet...

If your off-topic is interesting for me to discuss, or not,
that is another question. On writing E-mail to me, please avoid keywords
that may match spam filters. 8)

muchan