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| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5320 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes  Speaks: German*, English | Message 1 of 3 12 January 2012 at 10:02am | IP Logged |
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There's an interesting BBC article about a town in Western France that banned the use of "mademoiselle."
The beginning of the end for the mademoiselle? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 3 12 January 2012 at 12:01pm | IP Logged |
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Good idea - why should we need to enquire whether a female person is married or not? Now the French just need to drop "tu" and use "vous" instead like the English, so that we don't have to judge whether we are old enough or close enough to allow ourselves to be impolite and 'tutoyer' a person. Or say "tu" to everybody like the Danes. Edited by Iversen on 12 January 2012 at 12:02pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5051 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 3 of 3 12 January 2012 at 1:19pm | IP Logged |
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Patsy Stone would not approve!
I think it's better to try to make mondamoiseau happen. :)) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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