At 06:48 PM 01/12/2000 +0100, you wrote:
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>> based titles anyhow..... In Japan, one is -san regardless of gender or
>> marital status, and I had no problem being -san.....
>
>Relatives etc is chan, right?
>Like neechan and so on.
>
Relatives and close enough friends -- it is sort of the equivakent of
adding "y" or "ie" to a name here -- instead of Doug, Dougie, instead of
Hiro, Hiro-chan (pronounced, btw, as if spelled chyan).....

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