@Chocolate I finally understand after re-reading the whole passage. As you mentioned, there were in fact 2 different people. 有希 gives the card, the 写真たて was by another person (舞ちゃん)
The two sentences really had little relation to each other.
The actual time is 3 minutes spent waiting. The person that is made to wait feels like it has been 9 minutes. But the person that caused the other person to wait feels like it's only one third of the actual time, which is 1 minute. So the difference in the time it feels like between them is 8 minutes ?
@Shazer2 (My opinion) Always consider は as a disambiguative particle. It selects the thing to remove ambiguity, so that you are only talking about that thing, and nothing else. This is the master role of は
@gibbon I think it's a redundant implication. We are always at some place because we come from a previous place.
Shazer2です = is Shazer2, so this translates into (The things we are talking about is me), is Shazer2 = I am Shazer2
が is a lot harder to explain because of "things that work like verbs but are not syntactically verbs"
If not for this class of words, which would be called "transitive nominal adjectives" and also "transitive adjectives", が would be a lot easier to handle
I'm going to try to explain が. It has 3 roles, (1)- Neutral description when used with stative verbals. (2) Subject marker. (3) Exhaustive description (this will be constrasted with は).
For (1), we see sentences like わたしはねこがすきです = I like cats. "Like" is a verb in English. But it is "すき" in Japanese, which is a noun
For stative-type sentences, (as in above, you state that you like cats), が is used for the "object"
Some other sentences are Xがわかる = "I understand X". (It is stating something)
for (2), it is very straightforward. It marks the subject of the sentence. This use requires little explanation. Aが Bを ぶつ = A hits B. (A = Subject, hits = Verb, B = Object)
nothing particularly remarkable about this type of sentence
All your typical Subject-Object-Verb type of sentence falls within (2)
Huh.. I just recently learned this passive business and it gave me a massive headache. I didn't know you could have passive sentences without passive conjugation of verbs. (I know very little of how English grammar actually works as well)
@Shazer2 No that falls within the neutral description use of が. And the scope of discussion is delimited to you. It does not say anything about the people that is not you.
@gibbon I purposely used だれに because if not there would be 2 がs in the sentence, which would be a little confusing.
@Flaw I figured that would be the reason, I know that used to confuse me a lot.. But particularly after cypher's comment I got extra interesting in knowing why に works.. :) It's as he suggested that it becomes a passive sentence?
This question may be related to What does で分かる mean? (Cf. Tsuyoshi Ito and my comments to my answer).
(Regular) verbs can be turned into the potential form by attaching -((ra)r)e-:
tabe-ru vs. tabe-(ra)re-ru
kak-u vs. kak-e-ru
However, the verb 分かる cannot. Why is that?
wakar-u
* wa...
I'd say it depends on the prevalent work culture there. If for some reason everyone developed a high tolerance for lateness, then nothing would happen.
My boss doesn't really notice if I'm late... I'm pretty sure my boss didn't notice that I didn't show up for a week, and didn't deduct my vacation days like he said he was going to.
boost::spirit is a hideous abuse of operator overloading, made to work so that you can write C++ code that looks vaguely like a language specification... and have that actually be your parser
@jkerian, good, good.. :) I just looked at your link and saw "Western Digital", and you're a firmware developer, and I don't know how many times I've raged over how terrible that product's firmware is.
@ChrisHarris Alot of the stuff that made it into the new C++ standard was "beta-tested" in boost first, since several members of the C++ committee are core members of the boost project
(you can go all "chicken&egg" on which matters more)
@Flaw If I'm reading this correctly that just has a meaning connected to "there exists..."
@ChrisHarris BTW, if you ever go to programming competitions... study the stdlib and boost. It is amazing how many points you can get in those things, just knowing those two.
C IO parsing is really... really ugly under the covers
When I was in grad school, our ACM club used to have no membership fees... since we would use the prize money from a local company's programming competition. Officially the $3k for 1st place went to the department, but the department always used to give it to the club (who would setup the competition and make sure we had students properly prepped to win).
I'm not exactly sure myself. My mind is in a small mess. I want とある to be preceded by stuff. But I also want to limit the stuff but I think that's beyond what the site can do.
This is the the only sentence I found that is probably related to my search of what とある does. "その違いはいろいろとあるが、一番の特徴は、プレーヤーたちが優勝劣敗という結果を自分の責任において引き受けなくて済むように工夫を凝らしている点にある。"
Also, a large majority of とある is used with 「」. I.e. 「・・・」とある
Consider the following:
[1] 僕は日本人ではなく, シンガポール人です。 (I'm not Japanese, I'm Singaporean)
[2] 僕は日本人ではないが, シンガポール人です。 (I'm not Japanese but Singaporean)
Comparing my sentences to the worked examples in my grammar practice workbook, [1] would be correct while [2] would be wrong.
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@Chris Quoting sawa, "Actually, even when P and Q do not work in the opposite direction, you can use PがQ as long as P is providing a new topic into the discourse.
彼は試験に受かったが、これは普段からの努力の賜物だ。 'He passed the examination, and that is due to his consistent effort.'"
This question may be related to What does で分かる mean? (Cf. Tsuyoshi Ito and my comments to my answer).
(Regular) verbs can be turned into the potential form by attaching -((ra)r)e-:
tabe-ru vs. tabe-(ra)re-ru
kak-u vs. kak-e-ru
However, the verb 分かる cannot. Why is that?
wakar-u
* wa...
Consider the following:
[1] 僕は日本人ではなく, シンガポール人です。 (I'm not Japanese, I'm Singaporean)
[2] 僕は日本人ではないが, シンガポール人です。 (I'm not Japanese but Singaporean)
Comparing my sentences to the worked examples in my grammar practice workbook, [1] would be correct while [2] would be wrong.
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