The Japanese have five different ways to say ‘thank you’ — and every one of them translates literally as resentment, in various degrees. Would that English had the same built-in honesty on this point!
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
The Japanese have five different ways to say ‘thank you’ — and every one of them translates literally as resentment, in various degrees. Would that English had the same built-in honesty on this point!
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein