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Tu and Twitter: Is it the end for 'vous' in French? (bbc.co.uk)
6 points by friggeri on Sept 7, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Germany also has a formal (sie) and informal (du) pronoun and even though the latter is generally used over the internet, to the point that using the former can be insulting, there is no impact on "real life".




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