What should people do? Write it out in full once then use the initialism? Once per post or per thread?
Does it make any difference that it is spelt in full in the linked question?
> From the top of my head, Danish "de" (practically never used), German "Sie", Chinese "您", French "vous", Spanish "usted" are a formal way of addressing someone, especially if one isn't familiar with the addressee. Did English ever have this? It sounds as though Proto-Indo-European might have had this (based on my 4 examples), but perhaps someone can enlighten me?
You think the use of PIE is bad, just wait until they bust out the ASCII IPA.
(I am thick as 2 short planks but I've heard of PIE. HN should be a place where people like me need to work hard to keep up.)
Does it make any difference that it is spelt in full in the linked question?
> From the top of my head, Danish "de" (practically never used), German "Sie", Chinese "您", French "vous", Spanish "usted" are a formal way of addressing someone, especially if one isn't familiar with the addressee. Did English ever have this? It sounds as though Proto-Indo-European might have had this (based on my 4 examples), but perhaps someone can enlighten me?
You think the use of PIE is bad, just wait until they bust out the ASCII IPA.
(I am thick as 2 short planks but I've heard of PIE. HN should be a place where people like me need to work hard to keep up.)