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i was thinking about japanese and thought "what if there was a language where you had to use a whole different writing system when you're being polite" and then i remembered cursive
@s0 @hummingrain ooooh, i didn't even think about the latin/cyrillic thing
@typhlosion @hummingrain I mean if you include historical/geopolitical nuance to your definition of “politeness”, the areas where similar Slavic languages are written in Latin versus Cyrillic sets probably nearly counts? And I mean have you seen Cyrillic cursive. Even Slavs agree it’s basically illegible. And there’s Norwegian with Bokmål/Nynorsk though once again it’s rather conflating “bureaucratically official” with “polite”.