Is everybody angry where you live?

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Re: Is everybody angry where you live?

Postby anitarrc » Mon Mar 20, 2023 11:35 am

Kullman wrote:
Sebastian Stimmes wrote:That many of today's people in the spanish and the german speaking countries do not seem to feel downgraded by these indiscrete manners anymore , could be symptomatic—just like the smartphone addiction and the tatoos that so many people have nowadays. Aren't these all symptoms for society taking more and more the form of a mere mass of people?


Beeing spanish myself, I must say we usually prefer the informal treatment "tu" instead of the more formal "usted".

Beeing treated like "usted" is usually seen as beeing seen as old by your interlocutor, and almost no one likes to grow old.

Latinamerican nationals used to be more prone to use the "usted" treatment, but they are starting to evolve (or involve) into the "tu" treatment.


In Centroamérica this would be very rude. More familiar people can be vos, but tú is definitely reserved for the immediately family or love interest. Where marketing uses tú in Spain, the smae mobile phone company would use vos in CR or NI
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