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Re: French & Eng. vis-a-vis Dutch WAS: 2nd pers. pron. for God

From:Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...>
Date:Monday, September 16, 2002, 11:53
Clint wrote:

> > However, it would still sound a bit blasphemous to >> say "jij" to God; that would >> be denying your own nothingness in comparison with > > His greatness... > >Interesting in that this seems to be the opposite >intuition in French and English. "Tu" and "Thou" are >used to indicate one's closeness to and intimacy with >God, at least I would think....
Things may have changed and I may be misremembering, but I was under the impression that whether one used "tu" or "vous" in French depended on where one fell along the Protestant/Catholic divide. I don't remember which uses/used which. Kou

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