Re: CHAT: Politeness in conlangs

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
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[snip very interesting honorific structure)


> The second and third person very high grade honorific pronouns show the
> pattern discussed before: a third person pronoun used as an extra-polite
> second person pronoun.  _Shauldan_ and _shauldir_ are titles, roughly
> meaning 'wise man', 'wise woman'.
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If shauldan means "wise man" and "shauldir" means "wise woman," does
that mean that I am simply "wise" ??

Yours wishfully-thinkingly,

Shaul Vardi