From owner-cvs-all Fri Mar 3 0:27:44 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from grimreaper.grondar.za (dhcp110.iafrica.com [196.31.1.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6640437B59F; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 00:27:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01424; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:27:04 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.za) Message-Id: <200003030827.KAA01424@grimreaper.grondar.za> To: Yoshinobu Inoue 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 References: <20000303162635G.shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20000303162635G.shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp> ; from Yoshinobu Inoue "Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:26:35 +0900." Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:27:04 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message