てからというもの is used to describe a significant change that has occurred since a specific event or action, emphasizing how things have transformed or consistently stayed a certain way since that moment. It conveys a sense of lasting change or an ongoing state that began at a particular point in time. The nuance here is that whatever happened after the initial action feels profound, enduring, or transformative, often reflecting a personal, emotional, or life-altering shift. It’s more emphatic than just using てから on its own, as it implies that the speaker’s experience has been distinctly different ever since.
Do you think this would fall into a different meaning (but on the same page)? Maybe.. "Over the period of [A]" - since it describes a period from start to finish, whereas the other one describes a change from a point onward?
I'd say it'd probably be a second usage, yeah, although it seems like it's also implying an ongoing event like the other usage (as in the above sentence it could technically be read 'since a month ago...')
The Nihongo So-Matome N1 grammar book lists てからというもの and Nといもの as the same. Indeed, there is no separate page here for というもの. However, the どんなときどう使う日本語発現文型辞典 dictionary lists them separately.
Here are some examples from the book.
この１ヵ月[u]というもの[/u]、シャワーを浴びるだけでお風呂に入っていない。
結婚し[u]てからというもの[/u]、映画館で映画を見ていない。
Do people here feel these are the same, or different? My speculation is that the former refers to a time period from start to finish, whereas the latter places emphasis on the time from what something begins.
If they are the same, then the formula Nというもの should be added to this page. If they are different, then we need a new page for Nというもの!
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