Обсуждение: Japanese, was: Re: Code of Conduct: Is it time?

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 03:27:43PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Some people don't understand all these issues with she/he, for example, we
> > in Russia are not really concern about this.
>
> This depends on how the language is built. For example in French I
> think it would matter (not living there for long though so perhaps my
> perception is incorrect), and in Japanese it just doesn't matter,
> there is no such concept.

OTOH, there's a whole bunch of words denoting levels and
sublevels of politeness for each and every situation.

Karsten Hilbert
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On понедельник, 11 января 2016 г. 12:24:37 MSK, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> OTOH, there's a whole bunch of words denoting levels and
> sublevels of politeness for each and every situation.
Politeness but not gender differences. Perhaps just for kids (-chan/-kun).
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:57:11PM +0300, Yury Zhuravlev wrote:

> >OTOH, there's a whole bunch of words denoting levels and
> >sublevels of politeness for each and every situation.
> Politeness but not gender differences. Perhaps just for kids (-chan/-kun).

Well, traditionally not. But kare/kano-jo tend to be used
that way these days. All in all, in Japanese politeness and
gender specifics seem to blend into each other.

Here's a bit of semi-formal discussion:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_pronoun#Japanese

Karsten
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