Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140803191129/@comment-3146930-20140806031832

ChishioKunrin wrote: Bleck! There's a polite way to call someone an it in Japanese. Why can't we do that in English? That would make things a lot simpler, not just here, but everywhere in life.

Some words just don't translate as well from one language to another. The Japanese have certain words they add onto names for example to show a certain level of respect or to identify a person's relationship to someone else (things like -sama, -san, -chan, -sensei, -senpai, ect,). Here we don't have such a rule aside from calling someone Mr, Mrs, Ms, ect.

Just different rules for different cultures. You can translate a word from one language to another, but it doesn't always result in the same meaning. It's a shame too.