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Re: German 'duzen' and 'siezen' - etymology ?

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>
Date:Friday, October 20, 2006, 11:48
* Henrik Theiling said on 2006-10-20 11:41:44 +0200

> IIRC, the employees are also forced to use 'Du' among them, which, I
> think, is none of a company's business to decide.  Quite annoying.

Might just be part of the company values, it being Swedish and all. As
I've mentioned before, I'd consider anything but 'du' (in Norwegian) as
impolite.


t.