Talk:Japanese/Lessons/Introduction/Konnichiwa/Formality

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I feel お早よう, 宜しく, and 有難う are to be written in hiragana, if there's no special reason, because we rarely write them with kanjis at least these days. お早う might be a little help for a lerner since the kanji imply that it's the word used early (早) in the morning, but for the others... - Marsian / talk 12:14, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I agree with you; here's the problem we ran into. I originally wanted to set the table up with English, Japanese, and Romaji columns. The Japanese would contain the phrase in hiragana or kanji with furigana. Unfortunately, furigana in tables crashes some versions of Internet Explorer, so I had to take it out. When I substituted a four column table with English, Kanji, Hiragana, Romaji, a reader took it upon him/herself to fill in the Kanji for 宜しく and 有難う, which makes sense because it completes the table.
 * I don't want to imply that there are no kanji for these phrases, because there are. But I don't want students thinking that's the normal way to write it, either. So what I'll do is put an asterisk next to the offending kanji and footnote that these forms are rarely used. I hope that works. --Aaronsama 14:45, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

when to speak formally or informally
The comment that one should always speak informally to social inferiors is not correct. For example, teachers do not necessarily speak informally to students, nor does a boss necessarily speak informally to subordinates. -ToothingLummox 03:52, 15 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Corrected to "general rule of thumb"

about the conversation
I don't suppose 全然 means "Don't mention it.".

(We probably hedge instead of answer to ありがとう when we talk informally.)

- Sorry,I'm poor speaker of English. - 219.57.130.1 12:45, 13 January 2007 (UTC)