Timeline for Is it proper to thank waitstaff, cashiers, etc. for their service?
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| Jul 31, 2012 at 6:24 | comment | added | medmal | What an interesting thread of comments! Thank you for identifying yourself as Japanese (unless you're lying of course). For this question it was very appropriate to do so. | |
| Jul 5, 2012 at 3:34 | history | edited | Flaw♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Changing a word from ppl to people.
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| S Jul 5, 2012 at 3:34 | history | suggested | kiss my armpit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Changing a word from ppl to people.
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| Oct 15, 2011 at 10:34 | comment | added | Billy | @DaveMG: Native speakers know what is common and what is uncommon, and that's all that was asked. I have no way of checking the validity of others' information. This is not physics: the only way I can check anything is to ask someone more experienced. Besides, I'm not suggesting you should trust, say, a grammatical explanation from a native speaker to be complete or even correct. I'm saying it's wrong of you to berate this person for giving proof that they knew the answer to this question. Appealing to authority, while undesirable, is often the only thing you can do. | |
| Oct 13, 2011 at 21:59 | comment | added | Billy | @DaveMG: This was not a comment about why or how. It was a simple statement of what was most common in spoken Japanese. Don't forget that most of the community are not native speakers, and the questioner is not a native speaker - the correct information is not determined by democracy, and native Japanese speakers have pretty much absolute authority on the topic of what is said in their language. | |
| Oct 1, 2011 at 5:09 | comment | added | Billy | @DaveMG: I don't understand. The above poster was confirming that their answer was correct, and that they had experience to back it up. It is not important that a poster thinks that (s)he is correct, it is important that others know whether (s)he is correct or not. Foreign cultures are a subject about which there is a lot of widely available crap written by amateurs who once read a Wikipedia article and misinterpreted the subtleties, and I appreciate those with experience (or those with no experience) pointing themselves out. | |
| Jul 16, 2011 at 13:02 | comment | added | Questioner | Everyone is always their default source, so it is unnecessary to mention it. We all have origins which contribute to why we believe our answer to be right. | |
| Jul 16, 2011 at 11:32 | comment | added | Enno Shioji | @Dave M G: Hm, I was thinking of it as listing the source of the info. | |
| Jul 16, 2011 at 11:04 | comment | added | Questioner | There is no need to identify yourself as Japanese when answering. If you want people to know, it should appear in your profile. In an answer, though, it doesn't add anything. | |
| Jul 16, 2011 at 9:29 | history | answered | Enno Shioji | CC BY-SA 3.0 |