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Sat Sep-05-09 09:22 PM
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Terms of politeness or endearment are very often commandeered as insults. That can happen against ANY term of politeness. Like I mentioned, in languages with politeness distinctions in their pronouns (like English used to have, "thou" was informal and "you" was formal and plural) if you want to belittle and insult someone you use the informal form when it is not appropriate.
I am not denying that the poster was an ass. If I made you think I was defending the person I'm sorry, I was doing nothing of the sort.
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