Newsgroups: sci.lang
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!cam-news-feed3.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!world!mv!usenet
From: Ben Sauvin <sauvin@csql.mv.com>
Subject: Re: Use of "tu" replacing "Usted" in Spanish?
Message-ID: <325C50D4.48E@csql.mv.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; U)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Organization: CSQL TechServe
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 01:26:44 GMT
References: <52pmh8$t5@news.alaska.edu> <52re6q$ia3@halley.pi.net> <533dj9$q6c@oden.abc.se> <3258607E.24D2@csql.mv.com> <325a804c.2074407@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <325B76A2.4F26@netvision.net.il>
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: lnh-3-19.mv.com
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 44

Avi Jacobson wrote:
> 
> Polar wrote:
> 
> > >> Eradite:
> > >> In Svedia le rege es adressate: Le rege (Kungen). Exemplo:
> > >> Un question adressate a me como:
> > >> Ha tu comprate le jornal?
> > >> esserea adressate al rege como:
> > >> Ha Le Rege comprate le jornal?
> > >>
> > >> In Svedia on usa _tu_ (du) a quasi omnes, ma si le differentia in
> > >> etate (in age) o status es grande on usa le equivalente de _vos_ (ni).
> > >>
> > >> Io ha le impression que le situation es analoge in Danmark e Norvegia.
> > >> In Finlandia on, in mi experientia, usa plus frequentemente le
> > >> equivalentes de _vos_.
> > >>
> > >> In Svedia on nota in general un tendentia de retorno a _vos_ ma iste
> > >> tendentia pote esser causate solmente del etate del observator, como
> > >> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal si exactemente observa.
> > >>
> > >> Amicalmente
> > >> Kjell
> > >
> > >  Quelle langue fut ca?
> >
> > J'ai bien l'impression que c'etait l'Esperanto.
> >
> > Polar
> 
> I don't think so.  I would bet on L.S.I.  (Latine sine inflexione)
> --
> Avi Jacobson, email: avi_jaco@netvision.net.il | When an idea is
> Home Page (Israel):                            | wanting, a word
>   http://www.netvision.net.il/php/avi_jaco     | can always be found
> Mirror Home Page (U.S.):                       | to take its place.
>   http://www.geocities.com/Paris/4034          |          -- Goethe


  I've been told it's Interlingua. It's been a LONG time since I've 
dabbled at all with linguistics, languages or anything NOT having to do 
with computer science, but this Interlingua (if that's what it is) was 
darned easy to read for a third-generation Frenchman. Post more!
