Japanese, was: Re: Code of Conduct: Is it time? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Karsten Hilbert
Subject Japanese, was: Re: Code of Conduct: Is it time?
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Msg-id 20160111092437.GA22387@hermes.hilbert.loc
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Responses Re: Japanese, was: Re: Code of Conduct: Is it time?
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 03:27:43PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com> 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
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