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Topic	Swedish lessons with BL
scar the 1 02/23/21 7:48:15 AM #37:	BalanceLost posted... Ni = highly courtious way to greet a single person (Royals etc) This is related to a common misconception among young people in the service industry. Many believe that the plural you is just a generally courteous way of addressing someone, which is not true in Swedish, it's something people assume from having taken French or German or something. The proper polite way of addressing strangers would be using their title in third person. Once a friend of mine actually got told off by an old lady because he used ni, and she was quite offended by it. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent <cite>scar the 1 posted [p:950975343] in Swedish le... [t:79306625]...</cite> <quote>BalanceLost posted... </cite> <quote>Ni = highly courtious way to greet a single person (Royals etc)</quote>This is related to a common misconception among young people in the service industry. Many believe that the plural you is just a generally courteous way of addressing someone, which is not true in Swedish, it's something people assume from having taken French or German or something. The proper polite way of addressing strangers would be using their title in third person. Once a friend of mine actually got told off by an old lady because he used ni, and she was quite offended by it. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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