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Subject: Re: Gender-specific responses to s/he
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[Du kanst nicht mich essen]

> It may be interesting to note that in Italian the
> courtesy form for "you" (singular) is "Lei" which
> means "her" (and, colloqially only, "she").
And since I haven't seen anyone else mention German - in German, the polite
form for `you' is `Sie' - literally `they'.  It is capitalized and it is
always used with a (3rd person) plural verb even when referring to one person.
German, unlike French but like Spanish, has both singular and plural forms of
familiar `you' (Du and Ihr).
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Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino)
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