ler on Nostr: now that I think of it, Hindi probably has one of the most extensive gramatical ...
now that I think of it, Hindi probably has one of the most extensive gramatical honorific systems I know of tbh, and it has productive use as well.
These are just musings of me thinking about it
It's roughly a 3 class system (ostensibly 4 tho ig)
tu class -> for people you're close to like your siblings or friends, (or well god) otherwise it could be disrespectful if you use it improperly. it's fine if you want to use it to show closeness to strangers or not too close aquaintances of a smilliar age, or ones lower than you in age
tum class -> general medial respect - I use it for rhetorical speech and sometimes for strangers/aqauintances of a simmilar age, for those older it can be used to show some level of closeness., it (and aap) also used for plural forms (it's formally plural but ostensibly it's a respect marker unless a plural marker is used)
Aap class-> highest respect, used for any sort of elders/people of respect (like addressing people in an audience) (tho in cases of high closeness tu forms are fine, typically in like dramatic/childish forms towards ones mother or otherwise sometimes towards god)
using aap with tum verbal forms shows fammiliartiy + respect and is typically what one would use towards their parents
Aap with -ijiye -iye verbal forms is the highest respect, used towards teachers or addressting an audience for example, also in traditionalist+kinda courtly drama romance speech it's also what is used for a wife/lover to the other .
Then there are honorific markers (mostly -ji, and in formalese shree-)
ji - Can show geeral resepect, but also benediction and also a respectful closeness depending on the context but it honestly is decently close to english mr, but with the closeness aspect (you would add -ji to the words for parents typically unless you're intentionally lowering the respect form (being close, disrepectful/frank))
Shree- is either for extremely high dignitary repect or pure benediction or is a title and ismore literary
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