{"id":508,"date":"2013-12-04T12:19:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T11:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=508"},"modified":"2013-12-16T14:47:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:47:36","slug":"johnson-we-are-all-friends-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Johnson: We are all friends now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANY languages use different words for \u201cyou\u201d, depending on the relationship between the speaker and the addressee. &#8220;You&#8221; tends to have two versions throughout Europe (<em>tu <\/em>and <em>vous<\/em> in French; <em>du <\/em>and <em>Sie <\/em>in German; tu and <em>lei <\/em>in Italian, etc), and knowing how to use them is a big part of linguistic savvy. Typically the first form is for close friends, family members, children and social inferiors; the second is for unknown adults, colleagues and superiors.<\/p>\n<p>The details differ a bit from language to language. Last time Johnson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/johnson\/2012\/11\/formality\">took up this subject<\/a>, I wrote that the German <em>Sie <\/em>is \u201cis almost mandatory between all adults who are not friends\u201d. Germans have traditionally taken care to agree explicitly to begin using <em>du<\/em>; sometimes this formal acknowledgement of a relationship&#8217;s intimacy is accompanied by a ceremonial toast. (A speaker can tactfully broach the subject by re-introducing himself by his first name and inviting the addressee to do the same, and complete the switch to <em>du<\/em>.) Angela Merkel, Germany\u2019s chancellor, agreed soon after Francois Hollande\u2019s election as president of France to use <em>du<\/em>, <em>tu<\/em>, &#8220;Fran\u00e7ois&#8221; and &#8220;Angela&#8221;. But such haste is rare, and counts as signal of the special Franco-German&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2013\/12\/formality-language?fsrc=rss\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>from Prospero http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2013\/12\/formality-language?fsrc=rss<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&amp;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANY languages use different words for \u201cyou\u201d, depending on the relationship between the speaker and the addressee. &#8220;You&#8221; tends to have two versions throughout Europe (tu and vous in French; du and Sie in German; tu and lei in Italian, etc), and knowing how to use them is a big part of linguistic savvy. Typically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[84],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}