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Overused humble form

sasete-itadakuon by default (info)Japanese

The Japanese humble form させていただく repeated until it hides who decides what

Example

Flagged
本日は資料を配布させていただきます。続いて内容を説明させていただきます。そのあと質問に回答させていただきます。最後に日程を確認させていただきます。
What chaff prints
1:1 「させていただく」が文書内に 4 回あります（3 回まで） 1:19 「させていただく」が文書内に 4 回あります（3 回まで） 1:37 「させていただく」が文書内に 4 回あります（3 回まで） 1:56 「させていただく」が文書内に 4 回あります（3 回まで）
Fixed
本日は資料を配ります。続いて内容を説明します。そのあと質問に答えます。最後に日程を確認します。
What chaff prints
no finding

How to fix

Name the actor and commit. "We will look into it" becomes "we will decide by Friday".

Why it matters

Once it is polite. Repeated, it hides whose decision it is and what will actually happen.

What it does not flag

Up to the limit, the form reads as politeness and is not reported.

Turning it off or relaxing it

Silence this one spot (in the document)
<!-- stet: sasete-itadaku — reason -->
Relax it for the team (the reason is kept as a comment in chaff.yaml)
npx chaffjs relax sasete-itadaku --why "reason"
Turn it off for the team (chaff.yaml)
rules: sasete-itadaku: off
Technical details
Layer
L3
Status
stable
Severity
info
Languages
ja
Suited to
business, blog, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech

Levels

Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).

strictup to 1 times in a document
normalup to 3 times in a document
relaxedup to 6 times in a document

By genre

Runs by default in
blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, speech/address
Turned off by the genre in
legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play, speech/transcript
Not suited to, and not run in
technical/spec, technical/readme

Genres

Message

"{matched}" appears {count} times in this document (limit {limit})

This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/sasete-itadaku.yaml