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Re: Usted

--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Anton Sherwood <bronto@p...> 
wrote:
> Anton Sherwood skrzypszy:
>  >> Let's not forget German `Sie' and Italian `Lei', both literally
>  >> `She', presumably also meaning Your Abstraction (a feminine 
noun).
> 
> Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>  > If I am not completely mistaken, German "Sie" is not the feminine
>  > singular pronoun, but the MFN plural. . . .
Thus making it somewhat parallel with the emergent use of 'they' as 
the generic English pronoun.