Clarification Edit: for people who speak English natively and are learning a second language

  • x4740N@lemm.eeOP
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    4 months ago

    I’m doing Japanese and I beleive you are referring to polite and impolite (or formal and informal) Japanese

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
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      4 months ago

      That’s correct, 敬語 perfectly follows the rules, but while there are rules for 普通体 (ある instead of あります), people mostly just talk in whatever way they want that does not follow any rules.

      It’s quite shocking to me as a Dutch person, we hardly have such a big difference between formal and informal Dutch