若外臣记得没错
“If I remember correctly,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
若 外臣 记得没错
“If I remember correctly,”
“I know the answer, but protocol requires me to speak with deference.”
Traditional court etiquette dictated that visiting envoys or external officials use self-abasing vocabulary like 'waichen' to maintain face and honor the host ruler's supreme status.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
this foreign official / your humble foreign subject
An archaic self-deprecating first-person pronoun used by envoys or tributary officials addressing a foreign emperor or court.
remember correctly; not mistaken
A common conversational and formal hedge used to soften a definitive claim or memory.