Re: German T/V distinction (was Re: Is the list dead?)

Quoting Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>:

[snip]
> At school in the 60s it was customary to address a female teacher as
> "frøken" - literally "miss" - whether married or not. Male teachers
> were just called "lærer" - "teacher". Later we got the habit of using
> their last names - first the men, then the women, too.
When I was in elementary school in the nineties, we still addressed teachers as
_fröken_ (fem.) or _magistern_ (masc.) until about seventh grade. Later we
mostly used their given names, or nicknames in some cases.

At uni, we mostly used the equivalent of "hey, you!". :)

--
Andreas Johansson

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