Re: Getting started with a newborn lang

--- Kala Tunu <kalatunu@...> wrote:
> if it was "life is art" (meaning "art makes life
> meaningful"--in french "la vie, c'est l'art"), then
> i would try  $B!& (Bla japanese newspapers'
> headlines: "jinsei wa bijutsu ga".
Where do you get the final _ga_ from?  You sure it's
not the common copula _da_ instead of the particle
_ga_?  What Jpn newspaper showed _ga_?  Or it could
even be _ka_ as in the interrogative marker, ie. "life
is art??"

> i would even dare a pun: "seidou wa bijutsu ga"
> where the "sei" of  "seidou" is the "sei"
> of "jinsei" ("human life"), not the "sei"
> of "seidou" ("path of virtue").
I'd have thought the same kanji for _sei_ as from
_ikiru_ too!  But, the word _seidou_ itself, I'm
uneasy about.  This is another one from my sweety.

> Maybe someone (with more Japanese experience) could
> elucidate?
From my acquired understanding [as a non-native
speaker of Jpn for the past 10 yrs], _gijyutsu_ has to
do with _technique/skill/craft_ as in the word
_technican_ (ie, gijyutsusha); and _geijyustu_ would
be the _skill to a performing art_ as characterized in
the word _geijin_ (ie, celebrity).

Hope this helps.
M.E.S.





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