Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:27:04 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Yoshinobu Inoue <shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp> Cc: imp@village.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/contrib chapter.sgml Message-ID: <200003030827.KAA01424@grimreaper.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: <20000303162635G.shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp> ; from Yoshinobu Inoue <shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp> "Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:26:35 %2B0900." References: <20000303162635G.shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp>
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> If anything, if an non-Japanese people try to put the -san
> when they call a Japanese, I think usuall Japanese will be a
> little bit surprised by and appreciate the effort of the
> politeness shown by the non-Japanese people.
That is good to know. Thank you! (Or should I say - Domo Arrigato!)
> (Actually, I had not get used to call non-Japanese people name
> with no suffix, because it seemed too friendly way for me. But
> these days, I seemed to get used to it. Wmmm, this might be
> one of the first communication barrier from Japanese to
> non-Japanese, because there is no natural way for Japanese to
> call non-Japanese name, at the beginning.)
It is OK (but perhaps too formal) to use "Mr" ("Mister") "Mrs"
("Missus") "Miss" or their academic/military/professional title "Dr"
"Major" "Rev" if you kow it. General Internat Standard these days is to
drop all that and just use whatever name your communicant gives you to
use. :-)
At a personal level - I really enjoy working with the Japanese; even
when annoyed, they manage to maintain a dignity and decorum that is an
example to us all. :-)
M
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Mark Murray
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