Timeline for What is the difference in these two keigo terms?
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| May 13, 2022 at 4:45 | comment | added | dainichi | While it's not really relevant to the way the terms are actually used, I'd like to say that お目 in お目にかかる is not your eyes, but the other person's eyes (so it's not really you doing the seeing). You are appearing before their eyes, so to speak. The (grammatical) difference between かける and かかる is whether you are placing something before their eyes, or appearing before their eyes yourself. But you should really just memorize the expressions to mean two different things. | |
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| Nov 28, 2011 at 5:35 | history | edited | Questioner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed typo.
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| Nov 28, 2011 at 5:29 | answer | added | Scooter GG | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 28, 2011 at 5:11 | history | asked | Questioner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |