Comments on: Sorry for Saying Thank You: The Many Uses Of Sumimasen

By: TCMercury

TCMercury — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:45:00 +0000

Every British sentence can (and arguably should) contain either “please”, “thank you” or “sorry” in order to be truly polite.

By: NeonFraction

NeonFraction — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:29:00 +0000

Fantastic article! But I did notice one small error:
“Friend: Hey, you ate all my matcha Kit-Kats again didn’t you!? “I sincerely regret this.” Lies and falsehoods! NO ONE regrets eating all of the matcha kit-kats. NO ONE!

By: DeTo-13

DeTo-13 — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:33:00 +0000

also its good to see that Godzilla is being more considerate these days with Japans tough financial times lol

By: DeTo-13

DeTo-13 — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:29:00 +0000

Thanks for the article i never knew it that sumimasen was so universal, even if it is just basicly a polite gesture most of the time. It started to remind me of this haha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzq4YDt7V-o

By: Yuki

Yuki — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:48:00 +0000

I think so. I play a few Japanese video games and ごめんなさい seems to be used more with close friends or people in your group, while すみません is used for everyone else like shop staff, those you don’t really know well etc. But I said すみません to my Japanese friend once and she gave a wide-eyed look like I said something weird, but she said that すみません is to formal and a bit cold to use to friends.

By: LilB

LilB — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:00:00 +0000

I worked with someone years ago who used domo in a similar way.He used it so much I will always remember him as Mr Domo!