Re: [Lingo] 会うは別れのはじめ。 We never meet without parting.

[steve smith <sjs@example.com>]

Scott Robbins wrote:
> ...
>
> "Wakare" a separation "no"  in this case is like a possessive.  
> So, A meeting is a separation's beginning.  
Jim Breen wrote:
> The more common form is "逢うは別れの始め。", which is also in
> the Tanaka corpus. It appears on quite a lot of lists of
> kotowaza, and seems to have that or similar translations. A
> more chokuyaku translation might be "Meeting is the first stage
> of parting". That's kotowaza for you.
>

Thank you gentlemen.  Yes this helps very much.  Mostly I decided on the 
wrong meaning for の but the ことわざ makes it even more clear.

Steve S.