Aggrandising Japanese Keigo
Whilst browsing through some of the linguistics that I own, I encountered this gem from Bjarke Frellesvig's excellent A History of the Japanese
politeness
Morbid honorifics
When a person succumbs to the mortal coil and passes away, we have in all cultures words of varying degrees of formality and respect to
Japanese - Ways of saying thank you
The various ways of saying "thank you":
There are in Japanese various ways of saying thanks, these cannot easily be translated nor equalled
Third person pronouns in Japanese – 3rd Person Neutral
In Modern Japanese there are two 3rd person pronouns that correspond to the Western mode of masculine and feminine ones, namely:
彼 (kare, “he”) and
Line Individualism - Yura
SPOILERS ARE AHEAD!
Yura in Elden Ring takes the role of a wizened veteran hunter of “bloody fingers”, i.e. people having gone deranged with