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Book descriptionI was in Tokyo last week at a conference, and, while trying to get back in touch with my extremely rusty and uncertain Japanese, I remembered Jack Sewards book. The author, who must be the most extreme Japanophile I have ever come across, enjoys regaling you with anecdotes about this interesting language. Here was one of the ones I liked most.Like many East Asian languages, Japanese grammar makes heavy use of the concept of politeness - this is about as important to Japanese as gender is to French or Spanish. Verbs have endings called polite, plain and humble, and nouns can be prefixed by the particles go- and o-, normally rendered into English as honourable or honourably. So, for example, when I went down to breakfast on the first day I saw a sign on my table which said something you might translate literally as Please honourably refrain from honourable use of mobile phones in the restaurant. The refraining and the using were honourable because they referred to the honoured guests, but the restaurant was plain, because it belonged to the hotel.Seward explains all this: the basical principle is that my things are plain or humble, and yours are honourable. He then says that there are standard exceptions to this rule: some things are intrinsically honourable, irrespective of whether they are mine or yours. So you always say o-mizu (honourable water) o-hashi (honourable chopsticks) and o-cha (honourable tea). So far, Id seen it before, but I didnt know that there could be exceptions to the exceptions! Seward says he learned this the day he met a tea merchant, and was astonished to find that he referred to tea as plain cha. Since his life was intimately associated with tea, calling it o-cha would have amounted to self-aggrandisement, the rudest thing you can do in Japanese. So in fact its completely logical if youve absorbed the principle of politeness thoroughly enough.Sewards book is a little dated, but if you like this kind of story I warmly recommend it. He does his best to get you hooked on Japanese, and maybe youll find hes succeeded!Japanese in Action by Jack Seward online full buy text how read
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