Re: Dutch Study Group
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:45 pm
Thank you tomuus and PeterM for the interesting comments about the proliferation of English. Lots to ponder there.
Yes, I find these comparisons fascinating. I am not a native speaker of Danish, but I did live there. I never heard the formal pronouns used, and hearing them in older TV shows like Matador catches me off guard. Out of curiosity, I just looked at three Danish letters that I have on file. They were from an insurance company, a bank, and a government agency. Even those formal letters to me addressed me with the informal pronoun.
Kat wrote:Elsa Maria wrote:Are proper names capitalized in a manner similar to English?
German and Dutch are similar in many ways. Both have a formal and an informal way of adressing someone, so it came as a big surprise to me that the usage of those forms differs quite a bit.
Yes, I find these comparisons fascinating. I am not a native speaker of Danish, but I did live there. I never heard the formal pronouns used, and hearing them in older TV shows like Matador catches me off guard. Out of curiosity, I just looked at three Danish letters that I have on file. They were from an insurance company, a bank, and a government agency. Even those formal letters to me addressed me with the informal pronoun.