the questions of our times: formality and vampires

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This, thanks to a discussion started by weirdquark. Please do visit the comments where you will learn many things including the many ways formality is structured in different languages (something my questions did not fully take into account, and I apologize for that), werewolf pack dynamics considerations, and whether there are vampires in France.

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The problem with letting the higher-rank set the protocol in Japanese is that there's always a discrepancy between the two speakers...one speaks more deferentially than the other...