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====Politeness====

~~In modern~~ Eevo, ''tlaw'' (lit. "place") is used as a polite second-person pronoun 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. ~~There are some unexpected (from an Anglophone perspective) situations where it is appropriate to use a pronoun.~~

Modern Eevo has three levels of politeness:

*''fiar'' (sg.) is used for family members, friends, pets, inanimates, deities, and among blue-collar workers.

There is yet a third level of politeness: In modern Eevo (aside from intentional archaisms used e.g. in fiction or roleplaying), ''swad'' is intermediate in formality between ''fiar'' and ''tlaw''. The pronoun ''swad'' is used when an apprentice addresses their master, when university students address professors or when professors address students. (In vocational schools ''tlaw'' is used for student-instructor conversation.) In archaic Eevo, ''swad'' is used as a polite pronoun for persons of higher class (say nobles or royalty), or among the upper class.

*''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.

*There is yet a third level of politeness: In modern Eevo (aside from intentional archaisms used e.g. in fiction or roleplaying), ''swad'' is intermediate in formality between ''fiar'' and ''tlaw''. The pronoun ''swad'' is used when an apprentice addresses their master, when university students address professors or when professors address students. (In vocational schools ''tlaw'' is used for student-instructor conversation.) In archaic Eevo, ''swad'' is used as a polite pronoun for persons of higher class (say nobles or royalty), or among the upper class.

===Demonstratives===

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-In modern Eevo, ''tlaw'' (lit. "place") is used as a polite second-person pronoun 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. There are some unexpected (from an Anglophone perspective) situations where it is appropriate to use a pronoun.
+Modern Eevo has three levels of politeness:
+*''fiar'' (sg.) is used for family members, friends, pets, inanimates, deities, and among blue-collar workers.
-There is yet a third level of politeness: In modern Eevo (aside from intentional archaisms used e.g. in fiction or roleplaying), ''swad'' is intermediate in formality between ''fiar'' and ''tlaw''. The pronoun ''swad'' is used when an apprentice addresses their master, when university students address professors or when professors address students. (In vocational schools ''tlaw'' is used for student-instructor conversation.) In archaic Eevo, ''swad'' is used as a polite pronoun for persons of higher class (say nobles or royalty), or among the upper class.
+*''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.
+*There is yet a third level of politeness: In modern Eevo (aside from intentional archaisms used e.g. in fiction or roleplaying), ''swad'' is intermediate in formality between ''fiar'' and ''tlaw''. The pronoun ''swad'' is used when an apprentice addresses their master, when university students address professors or when professors address students. (In vocational schools ''tlaw'' is used for student-instructor conversation.) In archaic Eevo, ''swad'' is used as a polite pronoun for persons of higher class (say nobles or royalty), or among the upper class.
 ===Demonstratives===