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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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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And see, while in Spain "tú" (informal 2nd person singular), "usted" (formal 2nd person singular), "vosotros" (informal 2nd person plural) and "ustedes" (formal 2nd person plural) all coexist, in Latin America they were so ultra-polite "usted" completely replaced "vosotros"
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