Re: [Lingo] Re: [tlug] Correct particle to use

[Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

On Jun 12, 2007, at 6:03 AM, Keith Bawden wrote:

> > > 本を読める
>
> I asked the Japanese bloke who sits next to me at work and he said
> that hon ga/o yomeru are interchangeable and that he cannot explain
> the difference. I then went and asked two other Japanese here and they
> both said the same thing.
>
> This all leaves me not knowing the difference at all.

Well, fun-with-japanese101 ;)
Happens to me quite often with my tandem partner (being in Germany  
there are not that many possibilities to speak Japanese at time) - if  
you have not a linguist or a translator with real good theoretical  
knowledge available it happens all the time
But hey - there are languages were it is even worse because nobody  
made a good theoretical analysis of the language…

Niels