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 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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