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Example 65-37
Kapitana, waʃa ni kasajs'a!
Kapitána,
captain
váša
2pl
ni
neg
kasájsia!
concern
It is none of your business, sir.
Comment:
'Captain' (
kapitan
) was the usual form of a polite address to a man of European origin.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Jabłońska 1957
: 167
Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
by
Elena Perekhvalskaya
cite
Datapoints:
Politeness distinctions in second-person pronouns: Binary pronominal politeness distinction
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