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人々は、愛情と尊敬と、人間を超えた才能を持った人という気持ちを込めて、手塚治虫を「マンガの神様」と呼ぶ。

So, I have some doubts about this sentence:

a) what does the structure nounとnounと means, and how does it relates to the rest of the sentence?

b) why are 超える and 持つ in the past?

c) I don't understand the use of という in this situation.

Eddie Kal
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Eric Caram De Souz
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  • I'd suggest thinking of 持つ and 超える in this context as momentary or instantaneous verbs: more like "become" (describing the moment or instant that something comes into being), and less like "be" (describing the ongoing state of something). As such, to use these verbs in a way that describes a state, you'd have to use them in the past tense -- or more specifically, in the completed aspect. Consider English _surpass_, for instance -- 人間を超えた才能 could be rendered as _"talent that **has surpassed** regular human levels"_. – Eiríkr Útlendi Nov 21 '22 at 21:58

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(a) と can be used for enumeration. Cf.this question. In this case, (an interpretation is) it combines objects for 込める. That is, を込めて is taking three objects (1)愛情, (2)尊敬, and (3)人間を超えた才能を持った人という気持ち.

(b) As Eiríkr Útlendi commented, you can think of the た indicating perfect aspect. Another factor may be that Osamu Teduka is no longer alive.

If there were a copula,

  • 人間を超えた才能を持った人だった
  • 人間を超える才能を持つ人だった

are both fine, but here there is no copula and using present tense sounds odd.

(c)という generally is like that which encapsulates the preceding sentence to make a clause. Here it makes a noun modifying clause for 気持ち: the feeling that he was a man with superhuman talents.

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