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01-20-2011, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by YuriTokoro View Post
Thank you for explaining.
Sometimes 者 sounds detached, but it depends on the situation.
It may sound cold, yes.
But it may be also used as a humble term.
When you use 者 as a humble term, it isn’t scientific, factual, unemotional, scholarly, objective or cold. (As the example sentence I have written in my last post.)
Understood. Thank you.


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Originally Posted by YuriTokoro
By the way, do you know the Japanese honorifics?
Do you mean like さん、さま、ちゃん、くん、どの、先生、氏、先輩、後 輩? I think the only other one I can think of without looking to Wikipedia is 陛下.
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