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Modern Eevo has three levels of politeness: | Modern Eevo has three levels of politeness in pronouns: | ||
*''fiar'' (sg.) is used for family members, friends, pets, inanimates, deities, and among blue-collar workers. | *''fiar'' (sg.) is used for family members, friends, pets, inanimates, deities, and among blue-collar workers. | ||
*''tlaw'' (lit. "place") is used as a polite second-person pronoun (for both singular and plural) for strangers or persons in positions of authority. It is still considered acceptable for some professions, such as superiors in military or schoolteachers, to refer to their counterparts with the familiar pronouns ''fiar'' and ''swad'', although nowadays using ''tlaw'' is becoming more common. | *''tlaw'' (lit. "place") is used as a polite second-person pronoun (for both singular and plural) for strangers or persons in positions of authority. It is still considered acceptable for some professions, such as superiors in military or schoolteachers, to refer to their counterparts with the familiar pronouns ''fiar'' and ''swad'', although nowadays using ''tlaw'' is becoming more common. | ||