borrowing pronouns

[maher, johnpeter]

In addition, there are many Americans using "moi" who not only do not know
French, but who never directly saw/heard Miss Piggy'.

In addition, Casdtilian has "Vd/Usted" from Arabic "ustaeth" 'teacher; and
Italian "Lei" is a calque of sorts on the latter.

Steven Schaufele wrote:

> Robert Orr wrote:

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> > 3) And cf. the Muppets.  Miss Piggy would often use "moi" as the first
> > person singular pronoun while purportedly speaking English.
>
> And which has since spread to the speech of a great many Americans, many
> of whom [e.g. my wife] have at best an extremely limited knowledge of
> French.

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