I'm still confused between からして and からすると, and especially I couldn't really understand the difference from the sample sentences that I have encountered.
When using A as a basis for judgement for what follows B (like in your examples), からして and からすると are synonymous.
There is one more usage of からして that is not listed here. Let me give you an example from a text I'm looking at.
(日本語文型辞典) リーダーからしてやる気がないのだから、ほかの人たちがやるはずがない.
This one is more of the "given that not even the leader is inclined to do it, there's no way anyone else will."
According to this, it is used to give an extreme example, (like a leader not wanting to do something), and saying "given this, there's no way that _____."
I keep getting questions wrong in the grammar quizzes when the choices include both からして and からすると, and the correct answer is one of the two. I've looked at the info here and in my grammar books, but I still don't get the difference...
I keep getting questions wrong in the grammar quizzes when the choices include both からして and からすると, and the correct answer is one of the two. I've looked at the info here and in my grammar books, but I still don't get the difference...
According to the above video and the example sentences posted here, there are two distinct uses for this term, only one of which overlaps with からすると. But currently that is not reflected in the grammar explanation. Perhaps it could be updated?
There are no example sentences for the first usage of ～からして (using an extreme example as a basis for the judgement) as of April 17th, 2023. Something like 「象は足跡からして大きい」("You can tell that an elephant is big even by its footprints" or "Even their fooprints suggest that elephants are big", since I'm not sure which grammatical structure in English would convey the nuance of the Japanese grammar in question better) or 「あの少年は見た目からして不良品のように見える」("That boy looks like a deliquent, starting from his appearance"). Again, not sure if tbose sentences (both in Japanese and in English) sound natural and properly convey all the nuances and implications, but it'd be great if at least several example sentences were added so that this grammar would start popping up during the practice.
