Americans say "Thank You", but Japanese Have at Least 10 Ways to Properly Express Their Gratitude.

June, 21, 2014 | lee martell

[zencycler]

1. Thanks
2. Thanks a bunch.
3. Thank you
4. Thank you very much
5. I’m so grateful
6. I really appreciate that
7. I could just kiss you
8. This means a lot
9. OMG OMG OMG
10. I’ve died and gone to heaven
11. What did I do to deserve this?
12. I’m in your debt
13. I’m deeply in your debt
14. I’m forever in your debt

And I could go on and on. We have, and do, express gratitude in many different ways.

[gaijin]

A lot of the words for “I’m sorry” also double as expression of gratitude.

It’s like you’re apologizing for acting in the role of receiver.

[gaijin]

Actually paying to be entertained by a geisha…..

1. Means you’re rich

2. You have access to the expense account of a large company

3. You’re sort of a “playa”

4. You almost certainly had no sex at all

PS - Most “geisha” are actually MAIKO, a geisha apprentice.

Their world is extremely hierarchical and arduous.

[Gay State Conservative]

Large company? Yah,the company my Dad worked for was a major company...a very well known one.Don't know about the Japanese company.As for apprentices...yes,I've read that the training period for geisha (geishas?) was a long one.But the ones in the photos definitely appeared to be anything but young.But I certainly could be wrong.

[ExGeeEye]

I thought that was Jawa for “stop the sandcrawler and pick us up, we got us a droid.”

[jocon307]

“They turned out to be the performers who’d been hired to do the “groan overs” on the porno movies.”

HA! That is a funny story, thanks for sharing it! (I HOPE that’s not what the folks I saw were up to, but you never know.)