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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Habitually addressing your social betters in the *third* person, by a title Not just "vosotros" or "vos" but "Vuestra Merced", "Your Mercy"
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There were multiple titles, like "Your Grace", "Your Highness", etc but "Your Mercy" was the all-purpose one And "Your Mercy" became so commonly used that it got slurred and shortened from "Vuestra Merced" to "vuestraced" to "vuestred" to just "usted"
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