-san, -kun, -chan?

[sachi]

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id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I all three at work (chan,san and kun)...there's one guy at work who calls

me chan....but my bucho hated that...he would say "don't let him call you chan! That's so

disrespectful!" But I don' really care... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div

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@mirai:

are u guys close buddies??

one of the older

people in my work (45 or so) is always called ...-chan and she didn't really mind so it just stuck and it

seems it's part of her name. She's Chinese, and her English is better than her Japanese, so I just call

her by her first name. I still can't get myself to call someone that's 26 years older than me

...-chan!!

@daniel:

why don't u like being called kadoya-san?? isn't that a

compliment to the level of your japanese? now that i think about it, most of the people in my work call me by my

english name, because that's what they were used to, but when they put -chan on the end I get all giddy.