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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
Polite language (teineigo) actually is considered keigo. At least according to both the English and Japanese wikipediae: 敬語 - Wikipedia |
Not how most textbooks (genki included) label it though, so it's miss-leading if you say masu is keigo as everyone then thinks that it's super formal, super polite and totally out of place in the everyday, when it's more like... middling-polite. Talking-to-strangers polite not please-employ-me polite.