Re: addressing someone without -san or similar

From: Travers Naran (tnaran_at_no-more-virii-please.direct.ca)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:09:25 GMT

Sean Holland wrote:

> The text I first used about 30 years ago also featured a Mr Tanaka who was
> constantly going to town and so forth. Somewhere around Chapter 10 the
> sentence appeared: "Tanaka-san wa shindeimasu," and when this was read out
> loud a cheer went up in the class.
> Unfortunately, he was magically reborn in Chapter 11, where he proceeded
> to have things done to him, which was at least a partial break in the
> monotony.

ROTFL! That is so funny.

In my textbooks, it's Maya, a gaijin girl attending an international school
in Japan. When she gets hit by an $B%*!<%H%P%$(B, we kept joking about which
of the many misadventures she had was the cause. What enemies had she
made. :-)