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ては v.s. のは

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I am wondering if ては and のは is interchangeable.

For example,

話してはいけません。 (You must not speak)

Can I say

話すのはいけません。:?

Can I also omit the

話していけません。:sorry:
 
Just about 話してはいけません vs. 話すのはいけません, the latter sounds like "speaking is forbidden but other things(e.g. listening) are allowed."

話していけません。 :sorry:
No.
 
Really? I thought you could do it with ならない, though (like 話してならない).
 
Really? I thought you could do it with ならない, though (like 話してならない).

No. Maybe you are thinking of "話したくてならない".

Other instances that I can think of....

何か(を)忘れているような気がしてならない。

テストの結果を知るのが怖くてならない。
 
No, it was for the prohibition usage, not the "can't help but feel X" or whatever usage. Man, I could have sworn hearing about it used that way, but it's not in the dictionary (at least not under ならない).
 
Thanks all:sorry:

So how about these two, how are they different:?

ゲーム機で遊ぶのは嬉しい

ゲーム機で遊んで嬉しい
 
Really? I thought you could do it with ならない, though (like 話してならない).
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The examples above are all used as "clause," especially "adjectival clause".

So how about these two, how are they different:?
ゲーム機で遊ぶのは嬉しい
ゲーム機で遊んで嬉しい
The latter sounds like that the speaker felt happy after the actual experience, as same as ゲーム機で遊んで嬉しかった/ゲーム機で遊べて嬉しい. Or, the player may not be the speaker; 誰かがゲーム機で遊んで(私は)嬉しい.
 
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OK, so it's OK if it's used in a clause, but not as a main predicate, and it seems to tend towards being a literary expression. Is that fair to say?
 
Yeah, I think so. ~してはならない/いけないことは is more often changed to ~してならない/いけないことは, I suppose.
 

Thank you Tori!
 
the potential form;-)
 
Another one that I hear fairly often is "sou iu koto mo wasurete naranai." (And we also must not forget that). I had never given it much thought before, but this it must be. Welcome to beyond textbook Japanese. The "can't help but doing" meaning of naranai doesn't quite fit here. ;-)
 
Google search
Google search
そういうことも忘れてならない 0
そういうことも忘れてはならない 6

search result for 忘れてならない in a corpus
忘れてならないのは/のが/ことは/と思うのは/姿勢/最後の流れ
The 29 examples are all clauses.

Someone may say so, but I DO believe 忘れてはならない is far, far more common.
 
Well, OK, NHK needs to sit down with this guy then. After three times ALREADY, everyone else just ignored it, I naturally assumed far it was more common than I had realized....

Still "ことも忘れてならない" gets quite a few hits. ;-)
 
Still "ことも忘れてならない" gets quite a few hits.
Yes, I too did it and get the result that ことも忘れてならない hit 1,940,000 including clauses. On the other hand, ことも忘れてはならない returns 15,600,000. So I used the corpus to confirm the usage of the examples.
 
I guess I don't get why this is such a big deal. Is there is a change of emphasis from dropping the "wa" ? Does it sound really wrong or just lazy in Japanese ?


English also has rare contractions but those generally go almost unheard without a problem until you have to say them yourself and realize how much of a stress a slur of similar syllables actually puts on the vocal apparatus. (Which isn't a problem with "~~te naranai...)

Ex. : Here're (Here are) your notes. This's (This is) my paper, etc..
 
I guess I don't get why this is such a big deal. Is there is a change of emphasis from dropping the "wa" ? Does it sound really wrong or just lazy in Japanese ?

A sentence (not clause) ~てならない sounds very awkward to my ears to the extent that I fee it is "wrong" or "incorrect".
And I do not think it's a contraction and cannot be equated with "isn't" "here're" in English - I think it's more like "ain't".
 
That certainly brings it home. The contraction analogy was the best I could find in English because we don't leave out prepositions as a rule.

The last time was a during a discussion on the problems with tuitionfree schooling, Japanese education, etc. reminding everyone that basically that there aren't enough public schools in order to accommodate everyone who wishes to attend. And tacked on at the end そういうことも忘れてならない(ですね。)
 
Frankly, that sentence is in a level of "we can undestand what the speaker wanted to say but grammatically wrong." Probably one of the reasons why it sounds weird is that there's a construction of another meaning ~てならない, as Ashikaga explained.
 
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