139,285
edits
Ciètian: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m
→Politeness
mNo edit summary |
m (→Politeness) |
||
| Line 256: | Line 256: | ||
*''fiar'' (sg.) is used for family members, friends, pets, inanimates, deities, and among blue-collar workers. It is becoming more common among young people. | *''fiar'' (sg.) is used for family members, friends, pets, inanimates, deities, and among blue-collar workers. It is becoming more common among young people. | ||
*''Lâ'' 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 ''Sêd'', although nowadays using ''Lâ'' is becoming more common. | *''Lâ'' 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 ''Sêd'', although nowadays using ''Lâ'' is becoming more common. | ||
*''Sêd'' is roughly intermediate in formality between ''fiar'' and ''Lâ''. The pronoun ''Sêd'' is used when an apprentice addresses their master, when university students address professors or when professors address students. In universities and some schools students use ''swad'' for each other. (In vocational schools '' | *''Sêd'' is roughly intermediate in formality between ''fiar'' and ''Lâ''. The pronoun ''Sêd'' is used when an apprentice addresses their master, when university students address professors or when professors address students. In universities and some schools students use ''swad'' for each other. (In vocational schools ''Lâ'' is used for student-instructor conversation.) Books intended for a general audience and strangers on the Internet also use ''Sêd''. | ||
**In archaic Eevo, ''swad'' is used as a polite pronoun for persons of higher class (say nobles or royalty), or among the upper class. | **In archaic Eevo, ''swad'' is used as a polite pronoun for persons of higher class (say nobles or royalty), or among the upper class. | ||