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vosu /-a = you (formal m/f)
> Padraic Brown scripsit:
This I like, the m/f distinction. Is there a reason it doesn't happen in the informal forms?
John Cowan wrote:
Presumably because "tu" is inherited and genderless, but "vosu" is some short form of "Your Xness", where Xness is a gendered noun.
More like a short form of "you, sir/madam"; why would an abstraction change gender like that?
...When did the "Your Abstraction" form first appear, anyway? -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/