En réponse à Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>:
> Interesting that in the Qotil group, the 2nd familiar is only used
> for
> contempt. I seem to recall (and fluent/native speakers please correct
> me)
> that in German, one can use an otherwise perfectly non-vulgar
> 2nd person familiar to indicate contempt, ie ironic use of familiarity
> to
> indicate contempt. Do other langs with formal/familiar pronouns do
> this?
> (Christophe, how about French?)
We have the same use, except that the polite form can *also* be used
contemptuously when talking to people you'd usually refer to with the familiar
pronoun ;))))) . Does any other language with a polite/familiar distinction has
this? :)))
Christophe.
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