Anyone you’re going to fuck, use “tu”
Is that why they use tú for God?
Seems like he fucks me every day again.
The real answer.
Use tu. Usted would call attention to the age difference.
Usted would also create a boundary that does not imply intimate relations
Petah, explain the joke.
TIL how to embed an image on Lemmy. That is why I have 2 deleted comments.
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There are two types of “you” in Spanish. Usted is for formal situations and people older than you. Tu is informal and people younger than you. The joke is that OOP doesn’t know which “you” to use because dating is an informal situation but she’s older than him.
3 types. Vos is used in latin america.
Not necessarily everywhere though. In my region of Mexico nobody says “vos”.
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Was stuck for too long wondering what bizarre Gen-Z lingo I was looking at before it made sense.
Spanish speaker here!
Use “Vos” to sound more interesting 😏
You might get laughed at depending on the region you’re in.
Yeah, that make things more interesting 😏
Shit’s different in different countries but for most you only use usted when in English you might consider calling them Mr/Mrs/Ms or Sir/Ma’am
My native spanish speaking friends have always told me if you have to ask, use tu. And more importantly, unless you’re speaking with the king of spain, don’t use usted because it makes you look like a jackass lol. I already know it’s different region to region, but that just means that the safe bet is basically always “tu” if you don’t know
For me as a spanish as a second language speaker I use tu for my close friends and people younger than me or to a cashier. I use usted for people I don’t know that well or if they are older than me or security guards/cops.
As I understand it, in Latin America, usted is very rarely used regardless of the relationships between people.
I live in colombia and hear it used every day. I ride bikes with my buddies and in the group I ride 3 of us use tu with each other and 3 different of us use usted. Simply because of how much we hang out.
You can’t really consider latin america as a single block of spanish speakers. Every region is different.
Yep, every country is different. In Spain its more normal to use tú for everyone unless there’s some explicit formality
Thanks for the information! I thought it was more uniform in the americas, and usted was mostly used in Europe. I guess I will just have to listen to the people around me and try to do what they do.
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