Timeline for What are common mistakes made by Japanese kombini employees speaking "manual keigo" (バイト敬語)
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| Feb 1, 2013 at 13:48 | comment | added | ithisa | The problem is なる isn't the polite form of である, でござる is. It should be ◯◯円でございます。Not that I'm at all qualified to say that (technically I'm still in my first year of Japanese) | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 2:34 | comment | added | syockit | @StuartWoodward Rather than coining it, I may have heard it somewhere and mistook it as a popular grammatical error. I still am trying to recall the other incorrect 敬語 usage. | |
| Jan 29, 2012 at 8:03 | comment | added | Stuart Woodward | I think you have coined (no pun intended) an Oyaji-gag rather than pointed out a grammatical error. | |
| Oct 17, 2011 at 1:55 | comment | added | Axioplase | I don't even think of any honorific form when I hear "お釣り". All I hear is "your change amounts to ○○," politely. | |
| Oct 15, 2011 at 16:09 | comment | added | user458 |
@Axioplase If you are talking about the honorific form お...になる, then first of all, that applies to verbs only, and if it were possible, that means you are showing respect to the coins.
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| Jul 17, 2011 at 16:18 | comment | added | SuperElectric | This is perfectly correct. It can be better translated as "The change turns out to be __ yen", not "became". | |
| Jul 17, 2011 at 16:13 | comment | added | Enno Shioji | This is also not really wrong. なります is "softer" than です. It is true that some consider this as wrong, but it's very very commonly used. | |
| Jul 17, 2011 at 16:09 | comment | added | Axioplase | why? 「になります」to me is in that situation a polite 「です」. Did I miss something? | |
| S Jul 17, 2011 at 15:51 | history | answered | syockit | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
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