the questions of our times: formality and vampires

[rm]

This, thanks to a discussion started by weirdquark. Please do visit the comments where you will learn many things including the many ways formality is structured in different languages (something my questions did not fully take into account, and I apologize for that), werewolf pack dynamics considerations, and whether there are vampires in France.

[Poll #1601631]

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[rm.livejournal.com]

I didn't know those verbs. I find I'm more informal in Spanish than in French, but then I learned my French starting in 1977 with a teacher from Paris at Miss Hewitt's. My Spanish, originally, was Castilian, but I've tried hard to excise a lot of those ticks and formalities from my speech because it's not appreciated in New York, AT ALL.

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

Me too! I learned very formal Spanish at school, but I've lived in NYC most of my life, so I've learned to speak what I call "subway Spanish". Local Latino idiom. :)