Re: Japanese, was: Re: [GENERAL] Code of Conduct: Is it time?
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 -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Re: Japanese, was: Re: [GENERAL] Code of Conduct: Is it time?
On понедельник, 11 января 2016 г. 12:24:37 MSK, Karsten Hilbert 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). -- Yury Zhuravlev Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com The Russian Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Japanese, was: Re: [GENERAL] Code of Conduct: Is it time?
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 03:27:43PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Oleg Bartunov wrote: > > Some people don't understand all these issues with she/he, for example, we > > in Russia are not really concern about this. > > This depends on how the language is built. For example in French I > think it would matter (not living there for long though so perhaps my > perception is incorrect), and in Japanese it just doesn't matter, > there is no such concept. OTOH, there's a whole bunch of words denoting levels and sublevels of politeness for each and every situation. Karsten Hilbert -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
