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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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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This is why the grammatical quirk that when fully spelled out "usted" is lowercase but abbreviated as "Ud." it's capitalized, it's technically a proper noun
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Admittedly that's still second person but otherwise very cool
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