Part-Time Job Keigo

In restaurants and shops, staff often use a characteristic way of speaking called baito keigo, part-time job keigo. Kochira wafū pasuta ni narimasu: this becomes the Japanese-style pasta. Sen en kara oazukari shimasu: I take from one thousand yen. Ijō de yoroshikatta deshō ka: was that all, in the past tense. A human resources glossary notes that the standard form is yoroshii deshō ka.

In a 2017 survey by a university teacher, 73.5 percent of students in the Kantō region accepted sen en kara oazukari shimasu as correct. In a 2020 survey, 62.4 percent of all students did.

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