He would regard such discourse much as we do those effusive epistles of a certain type of young woman to her most intimate girl friends, in which every other word is emphatically underlined.
For the most part, the absolutely necessary personal references are introduced by honorifics; that is, by honorary or humble expressions.
Such is a portion of the latter's duty.

They do a great deal of unnecessary work besides.
These honorifics are, taken as a whole, one of the most interesting peculiarities of Japanese, as also of Korean, just as, taken in detail, they are one of its most dangerous pitfalls.

For silence is indeed golden compared with the chagrin of discovering that a speech which you had meant for a compliment was, in fact, an insult, or the vexation of learning that you have been industriously treating your servant with the deference due a superior,--two catastrophes sure to follow the attempts of even the most cautious of beginners.

The language is so thoroughly imbued with the honorific spirit that the exposure of truth in all its naked simplicity is highly improper.

Every idea requires to be more or less clothed in courtesy before it is presentable; and the garb demanded by etiquette is complex beyond conception.