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![I easily tripled my vocabulary that morning. And I learned something else: the language had formal and familiar modes of address–like French, Spanish, etc.[1]
[1] It won't surprise you to hear that men used formal address a lot more than women did. I've taken the liberty of transliterating the formal as ‘thou’ and the informal as ‘you’–even though in the original history, it was actually the other way around. But ‘thou’ just sounds more formal to a modern English speaker–and since I'm the only one left, I get to pick.
So there.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bu5ob3emr4yddctx53uitqhl/bafkreifdj4m7uumh5tpegveyzzoveha4aayrxgxkro7cgaqhxd7buwgyty)