the questions of our times: formality and vampires

[rm]

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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[trinker.livejournal.com]

Something like that...the sort of formal one uses for a shopkeeper is what I was thinking.

But we have a meme-clash going on anyway, as vamps aren't Japanese supernaturals, and Japanese supernaturals masquerade as ordinary humans of some sort, or as clearly not-humans, which get a different sort of speech.

Or so I recall. I haven't read any Japanese supernatural stories intended for adults.

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

Looking up such stories might well be a future port-of-call for me, then. :)

Crazy(and now? my fevered-overly active imagination is trying to wonder if a modern Japanese-turned vamp would say "itadakimasu" before biting... help. make. it. STOP! ;) )Soph

[trinker.livejournal.com]

*bellylaugh*

Thanks, Soph. I've missed seeing your explorations into Japanese.