Originally Posted by
studentbecometeacher
Wow, re-read what I typed and come back to me.
You might like to re-read your own post:
"how Japanese people react to foreigners and foreigners' inability to understand keigo: hardly a surprise"
The way I read it is:
how Japanese people react to foreigners and how Japanese people react to foreigners' inability to understand keigo is 'hardly a surprise'.
You don't seem to understand the implications of your own written eigo.
Originally Posted by
studentbecometeacher
Japanese people are not surprised when foreigners cannot use keigo. That statement is neither crude nor offensive. 99.9999% of foreigners either don't know the concept of keigo or don't use it properly, so why would it be offensive if Japanese people are not surprised when foreigners suck at Japanese?
And 99.9999% of all statistics are pulled out of thin air. Any source for your assertion? It's almost as if you are suggesting that out of the 2 million non-Japanese residing in Japan only about 200 or so can speak Japanese fluently. Yet another assumption.