borrowing pronouns

[maher, johnpeter]

1. No, no, a 1000x no = no argument.
As an argument from authority is no argument.

2. <'usta:dh> ~ "ustaeth" are both transcriptions; I doubt if the net has an
Arabic font.

Spaniards didn't hear the /´/ [glottal stop/ alif, anymore than French and
Italians "hear" /h/, glottal continuant, in English etc.. And English speakers
don't hear the glottal stop onset when they pronounce the names of the letters
A E I O.

3. If <V[uestra Merc]ed> is the source of <Vd.> was there, in the early period
of the usage, gender concord in complement adjectives?

. E.g. "!Vd. está viva! " [I lack Castilian font: please invert first /!/.]

When did the masculine adjectives achieve acceptance, if <Vd.> was
ever =  <vuestra merced>?
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

> "maher, johnpeter" <jpmaher at neiu.edu> wrote:

> >"Vuestra Merced" is a folk etymology.

> No.

> >Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

> >> "maher, johnpeter" <jpmaher at neiu.edu> wrote:

> >> >In addition, Castilian has "Vd/Usted" from Arabic "ustaeth" 'teacher;

> >> 1. Surely ...
>
> >Whoah! --- The rhetorical emission  "surely" [vel sim : "clearly, certainly
> >vel sim] is hot air emitted in the absence of argument, evidence or
> >homework.

> I'd say absence of homework is rather exemplified by (1) getting
> the Arabic word ('usta:dh) wrong, (2) claimimg that Italian <Lei>
> is "a calque of sorts" (?) on <'usta:dh>.  Surely.