The word "usted" is a product of colonial slave mentality and we shouldn't forget it! (My Spanish teacher actually did teach us this)https://twitter.com/desusnice/status/1377482764711309312 …
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As like an extension of the "royal we" Well they had that in Spanish too but it went a different direction
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In Spanish the "thou" word ("tú") never died out, though I'm told in Argentina calling everyone "vos" is a regional thing But in the 17th century the Spanish aristocracy started going even further and being *ultra*-polite
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is that why .. in German the polite verb form is usually similar to the plural form?
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This was also true in French although it seems to be changing. I struggled as a bilingual kid to learn the respectful "vous" (I learned "tu" first speaking to my mother) and now a lot of people don't use it.
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