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12-30-2008, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Nagoyankee View Post
Who taught you ます was that formal? It isn't particularly all that formal. It's just 'plain' and 'normal'. The fact that we can form ~~てます alone should prove that it isn't formal.
Every text book about Japanese says that the ます form is the polite version of a verb. You just burst the bubble of many Japanese students


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