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「嘘を嘘と見抜けない人」: Grammar question - GoodSirJava - 2009-01-30
From http://gimpo.2ch.net/nandemo/:
「嘘を嘘と見抜けない人に「なんでも質問」を使うのは難しい」
What's going on with the part in bold? What does that reduplication signify?
「嘘を嘘と見抜けない人」: Grammar question - joxn_costello - 2009-01-30
嘘を嘘と見抜けない人
Grammatically this clause has a similar structure to: "People (人) who are incapable (けない) of recognizing (見抜く) a lie (嘘を) as a lie (嘘と)."
In context, I think your sentence means "If you can't tell when someone's bullshitting you, you might as well not bother with the 'Any questions?' discussion board."
「嘘を嘘と見抜けない人」: Grammar question - howtwosavealif3 - 2009-01-30
it's not reduplication. it's just grammar.
If you know Use of を And use of と it hsould be clear..
it's not hard... don't think too hard.
Like here'sa simpler sentence with that
嘘を嘘で隠す
Cover/hide lies with lies.
嘘を嘘と見抜けない人に「なんでも質問」を使うのは難しい」
the と is the quote thing "" not the "and" meaning と. Is that what's confusing you?
I agree with translation abaove, （The first translation。。。 I don't get the second one).... So hard for me to think of a translation.
「嘘を嘘と見抜けない人」: Grammar question - pm215 - 2009-01-30
howtwosavealif3 Wrote:I agree with translation abaove, （The first translation。。。 I don't get the second one)....I rather liked that second one ('if you can't tell...'), personally.
「嘘を嘘と見抜けない人」: Grammar question - GoodSirJava - 2009-01-31
It all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents/pounds shillings and pence.
Thanks everyone!