From: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: 0x0a converted to 0x0d when saving attachments
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 17:13:24 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v1tg0zpbuj3.fsf@peoria.mt.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vafd7uurq3d.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
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> > 半田さん (Handa-san)
>
> I don't know any Japanese at all, and I wonder: is `-san' a suffix
> used when speaking of a person informally; somewhat like the use of
> first name (rather than `Mr' or `Ms' and last name) in the Western
> culture? Or is it part of his name?
It is closer to being equivilent to Mr., Mrs., etc. It is sort of a
politeness suffix applied to names. さん(san) is a nice fairly
neutral one. There are others indicating more familiarity with or
more humbleness in relation to the person, and of course titles can be
used. One never (well almost never) uses these suffixes when
referring to onesself.
--
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)
prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-10-05 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-01 19:24 Mike Fabian
1999-10-01 20:22 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-10-01 21:50 ` Mike Fabian
1999-10-02 1:49 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-10-02 11:40 ` Mike Fabian
1999-10-02 17:51 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-10-03 14:37 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-10-03 15:43 ` Jan Vroonhof
1999-10-03 16:51 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-10-03 21:39 ` Jan Vroonhof
[not found] ` <byiu4oo3et.fsf@bolz <by4sg8nmyz.fsf@bolzano.math.ethz.ch>
1999-10-04 16:13 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-10-04 20:12 ` François Pinard
1999-10-05 11:42 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-10-05 13:42 ` Mike Fabian
1999-10-05 14:25 ` François Pinard
1999-10-05 17:13 ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
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