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Originally Posted by chiuchimu
True my grammar is a bit bad BUT there is a difference between
鳥が鳴く and 鳥は鳴く
If someone asks "Who's bird is crying?"(Naiteiru toriwa darenoda?)
The answer would be: "My bird is singing"(watashino toriga naitemasu)
The answer would not be watashino toriwa naitemasu.
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Yeah, but that is absolutely
not what you said. You basically made a categorical statement that が always indicates a specific bird. Of course the answer in this case doesn't use は! は is a
topic particle (not a subject particle), so it would be unnecessary to use it to mark "bird" as the topic when the previous question already marked it as the topic. This just sounds weird:
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A: Whose bird is singing?
B: As for my bird, it is singing. (if you use は, the topic particle)
B: My bird is singing. (if you use が, the subject particle)
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This is precisely my gripe with people giving advice they're unqualified to give. I have been studying Japanese for about a decade, and you said those extremely categorical things with such authority and confidence (and considering your English grammar suggests you're not a native speaker of English), I thought you were a native Japanese giving some instruction on something I had miraculously never heard in a decade.
All night long last night I felt so incredibly frustrated with myself and my apparent lack of progress in Japanese to the point that I still didn't know は from が! I'm relieved after seeing Sashimister's post above that this is not the case, and that your post was misleading.
I do not need someone trying to teach me crap that just isn't true.
(And I'm waiting to see how this クラス issue is going to end up. I literally never conceived of using クラス as going anywhere before seeing your first post, and that was honestly something that jumped out at me as "odd, I've never seen something like that before.")