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Re: Japanese, was: Re: Code of Conduct: Is it time?

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On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:57:11PM +0300, Yury Zhuravlev wrote:

> >OTOH, there's a whole bunch of words denoting levels and
> >sublevels of politeness for each and every situation.
> Politeness but not gender differences. Perhaps just for kids (-chan/-kun).

Well, traditionally not. But kare/kano-jo tend to be used
that way these days. All in all, in Japanese politeness and
gender specifics seem to blend into each other.

Here's a bit of semi-formal discussion:

	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_pronoun#Japanese

Karsten
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