@ScriptingJapan why? is it not widely used?

@Statikplus They told me people don't really say that anymore basically. Obviously, your milage will differ depending on age/geographic location/personal habits. It certainly exists. Perhaps some of it was just not expecting a foreigner to use it.

@ScriptingJapan Actually when I teach this expression, I usually say “If you say this to Japanese people, they will probably laugh”😂. Probably because it’s so classic a phrase that they don’t expect non-Japanese ppl to use it (I mean, even young Japanese ppl don’t use it nowadays)

@takashionary Yeah that was my impression too.

@ScriptingJapan I was offered some food or something from my future in-laws and I said 結構です。They laughed. I guess they were surprised that I was being so polite but as a Japanese beginner it really hit my confidence hard. Thought I had made a mistake.

@jmakjen I'm not going to lie, this surprises me. I use 結構です quite normally. Perhaps I sound more old fashioned than I thought?

@ScriptingJapan i am literally presenting omiyage for the first time tomorrow and was absolutely going to use this 😓 genki steered me so wrong

@TVslibby Go ahead and use it! It's not rude.

@ScriptingJapan When I lived in Japan, I'd use phrases like this one pretty often or things like あまり価値がないものですが... Now, I still use similar expressions in French and English 'cause I've kept that Japanese habit of bringing back Omiyage from any place I visit. 🎁

@ScriptingJapan I think the more modern phraseology is 心ばかりですが but you’re the expert here!

@ScriptingJapan My host mother literally responded つまらない物いらない！😅

@ScriptingJapan I just watched an episode of a TV drama - from 2001, 22 years ago - where the punchline was that the character using that expression was hopelessly stiff and outdated 🤣🤣

@ScriptingJapan Experienced it also but I got extra thirty mins lecture from my mama lol

@ScriptingJapan Oh, that's sad. Didn't happen that way for me but I've only used it in professional -ish situations

@ScriptingJapan I think a lot about how I’ve never actually heard どういたしまして in real life heck, for that matter, Famous Genki Vocabulary Word たいてい never seems to show up in actual conversation either

@ScriptingJapan From the other side: I was participating in an English class when an old dude with pretty decent 英語 exclaimed in confusion "that's Greek to me!" and I just about ended up on the floor

@ScriptingJapan Would you say that たいしたものじゃないんだけど is more natural or at least commonly used?

@ScriptingJapan Really? And what are you supposed to say?

@ScriptingJapan I did the same thing to my coworkers when I worked at a sushi restaurant out here. They also laughed in my face and said something along the lines of “why are you giving us boring stuff then.” Lmao

@ScriptingJapan You seem to have used "laughed in my face" wrong in this tweet, too. You're supposed to use that expression if they're rudely/disrespectfully doing it.