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by eru 2396 days ago
Though funny enough, English has settled on the formal 'you' even when addressing peers.
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On this, there is a historical note: the equivalent form exists in Italian ("voi"), but fascist ideologues considered it an "anglophism" and severely forbid it (because of course anything from "perfidious Albion" had to be uprooted)...