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by lostboys67 3132 days ago
I've never seen that care to share an example - but non native speakers can often make accidently offensive mistakes using the informal Du verses Sie.

I also saw a Swedish guy suggest (on a Stack Overflow Site) that some one with the first name Mohammed change this to his "White" name of Martin - they seemed totally oblivious of what they just sugested