He went to rub the back of his head and ended up barely catching himself in time to prevent from smacking his own head with a dirty rag. Snorting, he shook his head and tossed the rag into the bucket alongside the other one. "Chan? That's right... where I come from, we have different endings we attach to names to mean different things. Honourifics, technically. Chan is one you'd use with women, usually friends or family. Kun's similar for men. It usually implies some level of friendliness or closeness. Other times it's because you're around the same age."

He shrugged, glossing past the other implications that he didn't personally mean. It was an oversimplification for the sake of making it somewhat understandable. That, and Shino didn't care enough about the particulars to get into them. Sousuke would have given her a better explanation, but Sousuke was thorough in ways that Shino simply didn't feel he needed to be without reason. "Usually we call each other by family name instead of given name, too, which seems to be paired with position titles when I hear the same around here."

He wasn't even certain everyone had family names. Maybe it changed from nation to nation? Mysteries of Thedas left to flounder in the dark.