From: Christophe Grandsire (christophe.grandsire@free.fr)
Date: Sun Jun 08 2003 - 21:14:14 EST
En réponse à Padraic Brown :
>I always thought it was funny! None of the
>British Romance languages have a third person
>second person form; which with Francien (and
>presumably Narbonósc) forms a nice counterbalance
>to the more southerly languages that do.
Actually, Narbonósc is kind of in-between: in the singular politeness is
done like in Italian, i.e. using the 3sg feminine, but in the plural there
is no distinction and the 2pl is used both for formal and informal address.
Probably through influence of Francien, the 2pl for polite 2sg does exist,
but is usually considered *too* polite. It's what you'd use with a king or
such, but France doesn't have a king anymore, so it's considered too much :)) .
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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