Post by homeschooldad on Mar 5, 2024 19:47:29 GMT
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/world/americas/colombia-sumerce-mothers-mercy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Because everything on this forum doesn't have to be about the Catholic Faith or threats thereto (or, alternatively, to desperate attempts to defend words and actions of highly-placed prelates in the present-day Church as good and even holy).
Interesting stuff. I was reminded here of the word in Romanian, dumneavoastrÄ, which literally means "your lordship". I am told, surprisingly enough, that it even continued to be used in the communist era.
Neither of these usages is really any more incongruous than referring to a man as "Sir" or even as a "gentleman". Both terms originally had a more precise, and more deferential, meaning. Not all men qualified to be referred to as such, whereas nowadays, in polite company, it is used to refer to any man whomsoever.
Because everything on this forum doesn't have to be about the Catholic Faith or threats thereto (or, alternatively, to desperate attempts to defend words and actions of highly-placed prelates in the present-day Church as good and even holy).
Interesting stuff. I was reminded here of the word in Romanian, dumneavoastrÄ, which literally means "your lordship". I am told, surprisingly enough, that it even continued to be used in the communist era.
Neither of these usages is really any more incongruous than referring to a man as "Sir" or even as a "gentleman". Both terms originally had a more precise, and more deferential, meaning. Not all men qualified to be referred to as such, whereas nowadays, in polite company, it is used to refer to any man whomsoever.