I had been wondering why there was so little Faine in my timeline & if it was because of the time difference!
"usually, using first names is associated with informal you & gendered forms of address + family name with formal you, but there's also 'hamburg formal you', which uses formal you in combination with first names" But yes, so weird for languages like Japanese to encode status in language 😌
"so there's formal & informal you; formal you is an expression of respect & the default in a professional context. Offering to switch to informal you is kind of a big social deal, but only a higher or equal status person can initiate it + it's awkward if you do it too soon or too late."
Every time I explain the difference between German formal & informal singular "you" in English & all the social conventions around it, I have to think of Germans describing the embedding of status in East Asian languages like Japanese as somehow weird and oriental
Oh I was subskeeting Linguee (and by extension Deepl)
petty complaint of the day: why would anyone create a Mandarin (to any other language) dictionary that doesn't show you the pinyin in addition to the word's meaning???
If you’re in Berlin (or can mail order from them) the Otherlands bookshop now has a very wide selection of my signed books, English and German.
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