Another question from me. Reading a text, I stumbled upon the following sentence:
では、テレビがあれば、万事それで済むかといえば、そうではない。
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5What part do you not understand? How did you attempt to understand it? – dainichi Apr 2 '14 at 0:59
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1What if you parse it as 「では、テレビがあれば、万事それで済むか？」といえば、そうではない。? – user1016 Apr 3 '14 at 16:20
Could some hypothetical thing be true ? .... mmmmm, not necessarily.
"Putting 2 more engineers on the task should get it done quicker" かといえば、そうではない。
It's a rhetorical construct, similar to what politicians and C-level executives often employ:
"Do I think that it's a good thing that 200 people lost their lives? Of course I don't!"
"Do I think it could have been worse had we not stopped the blah blah blah? Yes I do."
