"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
news:BE41D643.A355%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
> There was a great essay in one of the Japanese newspapers back thirty to
> forty years ago about the nature of translations, and the example given
was
> a scene in a western were a cowboy comes to a ranch to look for work. In
the
> original film, the cowboy is very respective of the woman owner, but in
the
> translation it is the woman who uses the honorifics.

It doesn't matter if the woman used honorifics. If the relative social
standings of the interlocutors were preserved in the Japanese, the
translator did her job.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom
ryang@gol.com