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| quendidil Diglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 6316 days ago 126 posts - 142 votes  Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 4 25 September 2009 at 6:34pm | IP Logged |
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I find it interesting how languages with different levels of social registers transfer them online. Japanese speakers on the whole, tend to use the more formal forms, due to a perception of distance, while as far as I can tell, Italians prefer "tu" forms.
If you speak a language with different levels of poiteness, could you comment on the common Internet practice among native speakers? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| janababe Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5518 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German | Message 2 of 4 21 October 2009 at 7:19pm | IP Logged |
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The internet is an equalizer, ur age, job, clothes, beauty, that's not part of the game. Some people find that offensive but they're usually older and can't deal with the modern informality.
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| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6190 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 4 21 October 2009 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
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In my experience Japanese and Korean internet users drop the formal forms and speak casually to each other. But this is on site with a much lower formality. In fact once my friend who is 5 years older than me was talking on some Korean chat site with a microphone and the other person kept using vulgar language and my friend asked his age, only to be met with more vulgar language, so he accepted it.
I think it's similar in English. There isn't a lot of respect. To clarify, I'm mostly talking about the parts of the internet that its primary users use most often, whatever they may be from culture to culture. In Japan and western countries, that would the the "chans" and all sites associated with them. I notice a lot of bad language from Korean users on Youtube... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| janababe Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5518 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German | Message 4 of 4 21 October 2009 at 8:57pm | IP Logged |
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Well, there's really a big difference between informal and vulgar language.
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