Do you have a different personality when you speak a different language?

Re:Do you have a different personality when you speak a diff... by shrikant on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @07:55PM (#1596642)

And in most Indian languages.

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Re:Do you have a different personality when you speak a diff... by CWuestefeld on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @08:05PM (#1596659)

And French, "tu" (familiar singular) and "vous" (formal singular, or plural).

English used to have "thou", but of course that's long since extinct.

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Re:Do you have a different personality when you speak a diff... by eipipuz on Thursday August 12, 2010 @01:56AM (#1597347)

Trivia, "thou" was actually the informal pronoun.

On the other hand in Mexican Spanish, "usted" is fading away. It's curious how different cultures get rid of different options.

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Re:Do you have a different personality when you speak a diff... by hernan7 on Thursday August 12, 2010 @01:29PM (#1598641)

"Usted" is alive and well in Argentinian Spanish. Divided by a common language indeed...

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Re:Do you have a different personality when you speak a diff... by antirez on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @09:30PM (#1596845)

In Italian is almost like that: "tu" (familiar) and "voi" (very formal) or "lei" (less formal)

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Re:Do you have a different personality when you speak a diff... by mitjak on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @11:51PM (#1597146)

And Russian.

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Re:Do you have a different personality when you speak a diff... by yread on Thursday August 12, 2010 @04:03AM (#1597526)

And Czech. And Dutch

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Re:Do you have a different personality when you speak a diff... by iacvlvs on Thursday August 12, 2010 @05:48AM (#1597660)

And Afrikaans: jy (familiar), u (ever so formal), but u is (or seems to be) falling out of common use.

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Re:Do you have a different personality when you speak a diff... by gokhan on Thursday August 12, 2010 @09:21AM (#1597987)

And in Turkish. "Sen" ve "Siz".

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Re:Do you have a different personality when you speak a diff... by jpablo on Thursday August 12, 2010 @11:12AM (#1598270)

And Spanish, "Tu" vs "Usted" vs "Vos"

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Re:Do you have a different personality when you speak a diff... by revorad on Thursday August 12, 2010 @01:02PM (#1598579)

Hindi has three - tu, tum and aap. I explained some of this on my Hindi lessons site - http://hindipedia.com/hindi-video-lesson-04-pronouns.

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