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@[email protected] Especially because languages like Korean are completely backwards from English, with the verb at the end of the sentence and the subject often implied.
Not to mention the context of honorifics…

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“@mel_thegreat Especially because languages like Korean are completely backwards from English, with the verb at the end of the sentence and the subject often implied. Not to mention the context of honorifics…”

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Show threadMelissa BlueNov 15, 2022
Honorifics could be a whole class, bc in English, at least in America specifically, we don't realize how we use it. Bc language is so made up of unwritten rules. So many of those rules, in American English, are rooted in the culture you are from.
Show threadMelissa BlueNov 15, 2022

The only time we kind of approach it in a tactile way is if we learn Spanish.

But American English uses honorifics. Mr./Mrs., teacher, Uncle/Auntie. They just get reduced to pronouns that you capitalize.

But they are honorifics.