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What Should I Call "You"? Part 4: Other Tricks
The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language
Why Should I Call You in Japanese?
O our why should i call you in japanese, palcastris. In the previous epistles we talked about how we don't use second person pronouns or third person pronouns - especially in face to face communications with strangers. We can get by without using personal pronouns, ot just omitting the pronouns in the sentences,. Or using people's names or their social roles or promine rolls instead. But if none of those works, what can we do? E, this is. The first tactic you can use is to say smimasan or choto to attract toir attention. And once you get attention, then that creates kind of a space or situation. You're talking to
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