Hi!
Lars Finsen writes:
> Den 23. okt. 2006 kl. 03.14 skrev Henrik Theiling:
> >
> > What is prescriptive about opposing to addressings that are the
> > equivalent to 'Hi buggers, this is your bugger's must-buy new sofa'
> > (or in Carsten's case: '... most beloved music')? It is not a
> > conservative criticism about what is the right grammatical form of the
> > pronoun -- it is more about being pissed by being insulted.
>
> Fear of intimacy.
Hm? Definitely not. Rejection of intimacy due to inappropriateness.
I don't fear intimacy, I find it impolite in some situations.
There are different situations in this world which differ in whether
intimacy is appropriate or not. Ikea's marketing is one where it is
not. We could perhaps agree that cultures differ in the selection of
situations that allow intimacy.
>...
**Henrik