Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!nsc!voder!gino From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women Subject: Re: Gender-specific responses to s/he Message-ID: <630@voder.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 14:52:10 EST Article-I.D.: voder.630 Posted: Mon Jan 14 14:52:10 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 06:03:00 EST References: <641@uwmacc.UUCP>, <980@utastro.UUCP> <5242@duke.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.nlang:2406 net.women:4093 [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). -- Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino) Extend USENET to omicron Ceti.