Your language is inferior if it doesn't have various forms of speech such as honorific speech, respectful speech, royal speech etc. (desu I'm a pleb so I suck at formal language)
Your language is inferior if it doesn't have various forms of speech such as honorific speech, respectful speech...
Lucas White
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Christopher Bell
Isn't it more that Japanese commoners were so repressed that an entire type of speech was developed to show submissiveness?
Jaxson Howard
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Adrian Howard
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Anthony Rogers
No. Most civilized cultures had different forms of speech. It's just that the Meiji restoration gave education to the masses on how to speak high language.
Lucas Torres
>english doesn't even have t/v distinction
Hudson Edwards
t/v?
Joseph Thompson
like tu/vous in French, ty/wy in Polish, ты/вы in Russian
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Nolan Sanders
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Ayden Rodriguez
Lmao, man you got them hard.
Evan Kelly
It's strange how it fell out of English even though England still has nobility.
Ryder Martinez
They come from a less submissive society
Xavier Sullivan
>t/v distinction
Is that what makes your language sound like tv static?
Grayson Rogers
We have formal and spoken language. Does that count?
Noah Jones
like this
>pszyszyszysz
Elijah Nelson
What's the point
Aiden Cox
It's because they're ultra polite and started addressing everyone with the formal 'you'.
Ryan Gonzalez
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Robert Wilson
Constantly remind poor lower class people they're poor and low class
Henry James
they have accents to distinguish themselves
Aaron Peterson
english and chinese has somewhat some things in common
Zachary Brown
Communism dissolved our honorific/title system, now capitalism is destroying our polite speech.
Jace Lopez
>Your language is inferior if it doesn't have various forms of speech such as honorific speech, respectful speech, royal speech etc.
Says the guy with a 'language' without an alphabet and has to loan characters from chinese to function semi-coherently LMAO
Blake Myers
>Having class and respect is submissive
You sound like American manchildren. I thought Mexico was better than this
Easton Nelson
I thought you have spoken language like we do.
Jeremiah Wright
t. Retard
Owen Jenkins
i love anglos for giving us a language that doesn't use honorific speech
i hate you all otherwise
Nathaniel Gutierrez
Hindi doesn't have honorific? I would have expected the Persian Mughals would have added some.
Jaxson Foster
Why yes, I am Japanese, how did you know?
Ayden Garcia
Doesn’t Japan have issues with like, people not being allowed to voice their opinions on thing because of how big they are on “respect”
Jonathan Rodriguez
>Accentuating class division with your speech is classy
You sound like you internalized it.
Caleb Perry
why yes of course i have 3 levels of honorifics, how can you tell user?