Manners

[Derek Broughton]

Nigel Henry wrote:

> Back though to the French Debian mailing list, everyone, pretty much
> without exception uses "tu", the familiar form of you, which you wouldn't
> dare to use if speaking face to face with a stranger, yet nobody
> complains. This is just the way of folks that post to the mailing lists,
> and nobody usually takes offence.

Cool.  It's probably also an artifact of the international nature of the
Internet.  I understand my Quebecois neighbors have a tendency to "tu" with
perfect strangers - which causes real tension sometimes talking with
continental French.

-- 
derek