Honorific Speech: Low Respect

You were briefly told about honorific speech in the lesson ’Honorific Speech: Introduction’. As I told, speech depends on the society that speaks it. As such, there are different ways on how to speak to different people. You don’t use the same level of speech when you talk to your friends as to when you … Read more

Honorific Speech: Introduction

What influences a language’s lexical and grammatical parts? The society that speaks it, of course. Culture defines what you will speak. Here, in Nepal, we have a system called ’Honorific Speech’ which differentiates speech between various levels of Respect. You don’t talk the same way (use the same wordings) to your seniors as you would … Read more