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> Edit: I should say that I never noticed a native Japanese person to be confused about the unspoken topic. They seem to be able to intuit it just fine in any c

> Edit: I should say that I never noticed a native Japanese person to be confused about the unspoken topic. They seem to be able to intuit it just fine in any context. I'm mostly just laughing at my own inability there. Sometimes they will get confused and clarify with a question: 私って？誰のこと？私とは、どちら様のことでしょうか？

freeopinion 6y ago
Just as a note, your sample Japanese seems odd to me. I'm way out of the loop on anything modern, but it is weird to see written Japanese with non-Japanese punctuation throughout. Interestingly, it has the effect on me of giving it vocal inflection which works quite well in the context of the example.
- rangibaby 6y ago
  This is a great comment, it's something I have never really thought about, but now that you mention it... 、is "correct" Japanese and is used in formal or serious communications. ？ isn't technically correct in Japanese but it's become pervasive in informal to semi-serious communications in the last 15-20 years, but particularly the last 10 years. It's comparable to the "passive aggressive full stop" in English, and the shift has happened over roughly the same time period too. These days, seeing someone write か。 instead of か？ makes me think they are either old or upset* *in anything other than quite formal keigo mails (JMO, I am mid 30s) > Interestingly, it has the effect on me of giving it vocal inflection which works quite well in the context of the example. It's interesting that you write that. I would say that is why people write that way: 終わったのかもしれませんよ？終わったのかもしれませんよ。 In [0] there is a chart that shows that Heisei-born are almost as likely to exclusively use ？ to indicate a high pitch at the end of a sentence as 40s+ are likely to exclusively use 。 [0]https://www.nhk.or.jp/bunken/research/kotoba/20170401_4.html https://www.nhk.or.jp/bunken/research/kotoba/20170401_4.html

freeopinion 6y ago

Just as a note, your sample Japanese seems odd to me. I'm way out of the loop on anything modern, but it is weird to see written Japanese with non-Japanese punctuation throughout. Interestingly, it has the effect on me of giving it vocal inflection which works quite well in the context of the example.

rangibaby 6y ago
This is a great comment, it's something I have never really thought about, but now that you mention it... 、is "correct" Japanese and is used in formal or serious communications. ？ isn't technically correct in Japanese but it's become pervasive in informal to semi-serious communications in the last 15-20 years, but particularly the last 10 years. It's comparable to the "passive aggressive full stop" in English, and the shift has happened over roughly the same time period too. These days, seeing someone write か。 instead of か？ makes me think they are either old or upset* *in anything other than quite formal keigo mails (JMO, I am mid 30s) > Interestingly, it has the effect on me of giving it vocal inflection which works quite well in the context of the example. It's interesting that you write that. I would say that is why people write that way: 終わったのかもしれませんよ？終わったのかもしれませんよ。 In [0] there is a chart that shows that Heisei-born are almost as likely to exclusively use ？ to indicate a high pitch at the end of a sentence as 40s+ are likely to exclusively use 。 [0]https://www.nhk.or.jp/bunken/research/kotoba/20170401_4.html https://www.nhk.or.jp/bunken/research/kotoba/20170401_4.html