Japanese honorifics

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The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes very honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking, or referring, to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.

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