It was a nice article written by you..
Infact being a student in Germany..
I find it very difficult to manage…Sie and du…I went to my Boss house once and I saw his child…
i want to ask the child’s name…
instead of asking Wie heisst du…
I asked Wie heissen Sie…

My boss laughed to the core…
I enjoyed it too….
Very very nice article…
Keep writing…

Regards,
Sathish Kumar.
Master Student in Hamburg University of Technology,Hamburg,Germany.

Silent Eloquence has an amusing post on the distinction between the formal Sie and the informal du mode of address in German:I am convinced the only reason it exists is to confuse the hell out of non-Germans. I didn’t realise

Thanks for pointing it out..dint see the correction – I would have kept on believing that trees are not all that good afterall..

Guess they probably knew it before they published,just that the wrong version made a better headline.

Thanks for your kind words! The real credit goes to Srijith, my contributions were limited to standing behind the chair and offering my two cents on alignments, colors etc and generally making a nuisance out of myself..

Yes, I loved Lucerne..in fact, I think it was the city I liked best in Switzerland. Weather sucks all over this time, Germany is not any better..I need two jackets to get out and its summer!!

And welcome to the blog! =)

I am sorry to go off topic. In one of my earlier posts you had pointed me to an article titled Down with trees in the Economist
http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4221504

As I suspected, the article is incorrect . The magazine printed a correction for a part of the article. The other part isn’t any better either.

Its like how some people prefer a Dear Mr. Reality even after a long acquaintance while others start off with “Dear Surreal” from the offset.

Ich liebe noch die Sprache.. :)

I was tickled to see that you’d come to aamchi Suisse for your honeymoon. The weather in Lucerne seems to be a little off, though normally it *is* quite pretty (sometimes a little too vanilla sweet for me, but what the heck, it’s pretty).

About your post, for french (same country as Pramod, just in the french part) the rules are pretty simple, where you default ‘vous’ for everyone and switch over to ‘tu’ when they initiate it. Very similar to Hindi tum/aap.

Aren’t you glad Malayalam isn’t that complicated ?:)

Welcome to the blog..!

I am not sure you can actually address a person He Sie, but I understood your next line – so not a bad first attempt at a new language =)