Re: Old Norse (was Re: New to the list)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 23, 2000, 10:51 |
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At 14:24 22.6.2000 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>In the American South, everyone of importance used to be known as "Colonel"
>(the military title).
Even if they weren't so actually?
Up to ca 1960 Swedes had to keep track on each other's occupational etc.
titles (or their husbands') since their definite forms had to be used for
addressing in conversation. To be addressed merely as _min herre_ or _ni_
(sc. vous) meant you had no professional or academic degree! Then there
was a successful campaign (for egalitarian as well as linguistic hygiene
reasons) ousting all that in favour of the simple _du_. The older usage
lingers on only with _kungen_ and his close kin -- and they used to be _Ers
Majestät_ back when the practice was general, so they have been demoted
too! :-)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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