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   Mⱺ℠ (nevali@troet.cafe)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 19:05:18 JST Mⱺ℠

   if you're learning German and get anxiety about the whole „du“ or „Sie“ thing… i saw a german meme yesterday about the stress of meeting your partner's parents for the first time and not knowing whether to address them formally or informally

   which doesn't help you figure it out one bit but does at least demonstrate that the reality of the struggle is shared by native-speakers (give it a few more decades and it'll be relegated to only the most official of circumstances i suspect tbh)

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 19:05:17 JST Another Angry Woman

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     @nevali relatedly, kinda, I really want to know what happened in English that everyone entirely stopped using the *informal* version (thee/thy) and embraced the formal you for everyond

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 19:43:08 JST Another Angry Woman

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     @nevali apparently the same happened in Dutch, which... yeah, I guess might make sense for this hypothesis

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     Mⱺ℠ (nevali@troet.cafe)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 19:43:09 JST Mⱺ℠

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     • Another Angry Woman

     @stavvers yeah, embracing the formal says *something*, doesn't it? my kneejerk would be that England's psyche is fundamentally that of Hyacinth Bucket, but i'm sure there are more complicated reasons than just toxic aspir…inity(???)