What I want to know is, when did the delightful words 小生 and 小職 get phased out?

> forms that were used when speaking to superiors and equals would, respectively, now be considered "standard" and "special"

Should this be the other way around?

Vilhelm: Yes. (I knew it!!)

Avery: Probably also dealt a serious blow by Kore Kara no Keigo! Wetzel points out that KKnK singles out "obsequious humble forms" as an indication that their user, "without even knowing it ... miss[es] the point of their own and others' human dignity." (I once interacted with a man who used 小職 but it felt more like hobbyist dandyism than anything else. He carried it off well!)

Hmm.. I recall participating in a research project, some native Japanese speakers said a variety of sentences containing "jibun" and a group of 4th year Japanese language students were supposed to write down whether we thought they sounded like proper usage or not. I wonder how we did, I never saw the research results. I had forgotten all about that survey. My class of JSL students was treated like lab rats sometimes. I often said that if the Japanese Pedagogy MS students could do their research on how to teach language to students, without ever having to deal with students, they would eliminate students altogether.

I'm rather fond of calling myself 拙者.
But I do all kinds of weird things like say させて頂くぜ.

I'll only accept 拙者 if your copula is でござる。

As I'm sure many people could point out, 自分 in Osaka is second person, i.e., it means 'you'. It's common enough in conversation that I picked it up when I lived there.

I doubt that Osaka dialect was ever a consideration in ruling 自分 to be avoided, but anyway there it is.

Also, I'm a little nonplussed that using one's given name or surname as first-person usage was recommended in 1941. It somehow sounds strange, which is probably more a profession of ignorance than of disagreement. But did people really say (when speaking to superiors) 浩二は同感です！ or 長谷川は存じません。?

In anime name-as-first-person is a marker of sugarly cute characters, to the point of childishness, and is often marked as female and/or quirky. Examples include Misa from Death Note, Ed from Cowboy Bebop, Maria from Sayōnara Zetsubō Sensei, Nel from Bleach, Suzuna from Pokémon etc. TVtropes has a lot as expected.

Referring to oneself by name is actually still done in some formal contexts; I often receive e-mails from professors or graduate students that say things like 何かありましたら、田中までご連絡ください. I've never heard this usage in speech, though.

Referring to onself would be the best way to achieve self effacement/humbling but at the same time still be 'present' for communicative purposes...

I didn't consider the Kansai connection for "jibun". It seems vaguely possible that they want to avoid it because it's ambiguous, but you'd think they'd say so if that were the case. The lack of an explanation makes me suspicious that it was something hard to explain. (Plus, what about "ware"?!)

Re name as self-reference, like Chris I have seen it in written communications and I *think* I have seen it in "impersonal speech" ("OK, this presentation is over... see you all later... if you have any questions, send them to Tanaka [i.e. me]".). But it's hard to imagine saying a boss "Tanaka/Kenji thinks this is a bad idea, sir."

This could just be because we were all born relatively recently, though. For example, if you look at 解説礼法要項 (ed. 九華会), published 1941, available at Kindai Digital Library), it comments on this passage as follows: "高貴の方に對しては『私』といはずに、例へば『山田は……』などと自分の姓を申し上げるのである。" (And just before that it supports my "watakushi" theory, woo!) So it seems that the idea that you would call yourself "Tanaka" even when speaking to superiors, and that calling yourself "watakushi" to superiors was *wrong*, was at least out there as a prescriptive ideal. (No idea how common it was in practice, tho!)

Avery: my boss still uses 小生 in his emails. Lovely!

My late tea teacher (a pre-war Japanese immigrant lady) used to address me as "otaku", which I couldn't help but find amusing.

Well, 'otaku' is extremely common in Japan, too, even in contexts like 'otaku no kaisha' as an informal alternative to 'onsha' or 'kisha'.

I like to translate "otaku" as "good sir", so that latter-day otakus can be "Good Sirs". This is only in my head, of course.

小生, on the other hand, is untranslatable-- the closest I could get would be "yr obt svt", but this conveys little of the awe-inspiringly feudal office etiquette that drove Japan through its boom years. (It's not a term veiled in mystery, though. Google it and you'll get the idea.)

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