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Politeness Levels Posted by Ginny on Feb 4, 2009
A lot of people ask me, what is the difference between the standard polite form and the deferential polite form in Korean? The answer to that is that the deferential polite form uses a higher level of politeness than the standard polite form. While both the standard and the deferential forms are polite, you would…