Re: German 'duzen' and 'siezen' - etymology ?
| From: | Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 23, 2006, 9:55 |
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Den 23. okt. 2006 kl. 03.14 skrev Henrik Theiling:
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> 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. I guess it's as common here in Scandinavia, if not
more. After all, we are famous for it. But maybe that's why we
embrace the Amer-English abandonment of the linguistic intimacy-
delimiters so heartily. It can be pretty cold up here.
LEF
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