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Vsuresh Posted 15 years ago
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While we are addressing a person of equal stature we use 'you'.

In a play I read today, the maid addresses her mistress 'madame' as, "Is the Madame worried?"

Is this practice- The person subordinate to the listener uses the name of his office to address him- common?
  

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Hi, While we are addressing a person of equal stature we use 'you'. " Is this practice- The person subordinate to the listener uses the name of his office to address him- common? You need to consider that the vast majority of people in N.

  • Hi, While we are addressing a person of equal stature we use 'you'.
  • " Is this practice- The person subordinate to the listener uses the name of his office to address him- common?
  • You need to consider that the vast majority of people in N.
  • America have no maid, and indeed no servants at all.
  • I don't know anybody who has a maid.
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Hi,

While we are addressing a person of equal stature we use 'you'.

In a play I read today, the maid addresses her mistress 'madame' as, "Is the Madame worried?"

Is this practice- The person subordinate to the listener uses the name of his office to address him- common?

You need to consider that t
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Thank you Clive

Suresh

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