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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:46:40 JST kaia
   Germans when they like you: "you can call me you!" :l_happy:
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     Ariel Mirage (mirari@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:49:51 JST Ariel Mirage

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     @kaia they refer indirectly for politeness? Like in other European languages?

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:50:20 JST kaia

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     • Ariel Mirage
     @mirari yes, difference between polite "sie" and informal "du" (you).
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     Ariel Mirage (mirari@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:52:48 JST Ariel Mirage

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     @kaia it really bothers me that English barely has anything to show politeness.

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:53:50 JST kaia

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     • Ariel Mirage
     @mirari advantage of polite "sie" is also that you use it independent of sex or gender. so no accidental misgendering to someone's face like "sir".
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     bartholin (bartholin@fops.cloud)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:54:09 JST bartholin

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     @kaia germans using the they/them pronouns
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     p (p@raru.re)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:55:37 JST p

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     • Ariel Mirage

     Your lordship doth protest
     @mirari @kaia

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     plis kiss this lis :kiss: (lis@mk.catgirlsfor.science)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:02:00 JST plis kiss this lis :kiss:

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     @kaia@brotka.st more like “you can call me thou”

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     Ariel Mirage (mirari@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:23:51 JST Ariel Mirage

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     @kaia that’s cool. We use the exclusive you ‘voi’ for the polite form and ‘tu’ for the informal one in Romanian. Both are not gender dependent.

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     Antti Metsänkylä (antmetsa@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 06:34:32 JST Antti Metsänkylä

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     @kaia

     Danes say "Jeg kan godt lide dig",
     I can tolerate you well, when they mean I like you.

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