From: Anton Sherwood (bronto@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Jun 06 2003 - 12:36:42 EST
Mermaid Productions wrote:
> Must be an Iberian thing, as Portuguese and Catalan also have
> similar second-but-really-third person formal pronouns with the
> same origin (você and vostè).
Let's not forget German `Sie' and Italian `Lei', both literally `She',
presumably also meaning Your Abstraction (a feminine noun).
French is locally odd in lacking such a form.
-- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
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