Re: formal prefixes
Re: formal prefixes
- Subject: Re: formal prefixes
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:48:23 -0700
On Sep 25, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Christopher Nebel wrote:
As long as we're on the topic and have a French native present,
where is the distinction between the French "Mme" and "Mlle"
drawn? Is it, like English "Mrs" and "Miss", a matter of marital
status, or merely of age?
I'll let Yvan Koenig answer that, but I do know that it German it is
both. When a woman gets married, she ceases to become "frauline" and
becomes "frau", but when she reaches a "certain age", she becomes
"frau" regardless of her marital status.
-- Ms. Michelle Anne Steiner
--
Science is the defense of ignorance, the insistence that we do not
know what we do not know. --Clifford Geertz
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