>Europe has a history of feudalism and USA doesn't >yet

we wuz knights n sheeit

>>72749425
Spain uses señor

>>72749425
Brits use those too you know...

you do in England?

>>72749425
>yet only in America people use "sir" and other formal titles
except the title of sir is still used throughout the entire anglosphere

>somali education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsieur
Monsieur (French pronunciation: [mə.sjo]; pl. Messieurs; 1512, from Middle French mon sieur, literally "my lord"[1]) is an honorific title that used to refer to or address the eldest living brother of the king in the French royal court. It has now become the customary French title of respect and term of address for a French-speaking man, corresponding to such English titles as Mr. or sir.[2]

you also do in Turkey, you use bey for mr/sir (goes after the name, e.g. Mehmet Bey)

>>72749817
>flag

>>72749512
Correct

>Europe has a history of feudalism and USA doesn't

>>72749425
As for Germany, herr doktor professor IS NOT A JOKE. They take their titles seriously.
http://german.stackexchange.com/questions/25822/herr-doktor-professor-or-herr-professor-doktor
Both Professor and Doktor are titles much like the historical Freiherr. Titles are added to the name in descending order, the highest ranking title first. Therefore, Professor must be placed before Doktor.

Herr Professor Doktor Liebig …
However, it is rather uncommon to use both titles except in door signs and maybe the salutation of formal letters. Usually one would restrict oneself to one title in German.

Herr Professor Liebig …
Note that for these intents and purposes, Herr and Frau do not count as titles. (Titles need to be gained but every grown-up is automatically either Herr or Frau; neither of them were ever explicitly gained. This was likely different two centuries ago.)

>>72750131
there are many of your kind here

there are hardly any of my kind here

check urself filthy gypsy

>>72750345
>flag

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>have an MSc in CS


if I go to USA I will be addressed as Sir Master


like the sound of that t b h

>>72750478
Pretty sure we will just address you as fag

>>72749425
You don't? What do you call your teachers in school?

>>72750511
wouldn't it at least be Gay Lord?

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>US doesn't have a history of feudalism

Ok lad

Mr. Lord Trump sir

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>>72750573
nicely done

>>72749425
>Politicians in his country don't have to call people "the right honourable gentleman anon"

Barbaric desu

>>72750632
That's not what feudalism is

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>>72750573

>>72749425
We use these to. It is quite normal to call customers Sir if you work in retail for example.

>>72750747
It's a feudal institution

>>72749425
It's because the US is trying hard to adopt ANY semblance of european culture and history.

Literally tryhard we wuz shit.

>>72749425
I'm a volunteer in a primary school and the pupils call adults Sir or Mr/Mrs/Miss [Surname]. Adults also use these terms when speaking to another adult in front of the pupils.

>>72749425

Yes we know that communists made you guys get rid of formalities in your country

>>72750776
In Sweden it used to be customary to use a different pronoun for addressing people who held less power than you. It was the word for "You" in plural form, so basically like a warped version of the German "Sie" or a bit like the English "Thou".

Young people usually think it means the opposite because it sounds classy, so younglings at cash registers using it to try and be courteous to an elderly person have generated many angry open letters to local papers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du-reformen

>>72751032
Ah well, Sir implies the opposite. It means you are either an equal or above in status. So it doesn't have a negative connotation.

>>72750959
>reactionary feudal class thinking is good

Only an unoriginal people without history would hang so much on old traditions they dont even understand, let alone that is theirs to begin with.

Mature people actually evolve, shedding old habits and move on along the road of societal evolution. Because they have the intellectual capability and philosophical reason for it. Impostors can only copy a snapshot of culture and deprive it out of all development, freezing it in time.

>>72751320

>Pseudo intelligent garbage

Okay pal we'll see what country collapses first. Yours or mine

>>72751320
>German hates tradition
Colour me surprised. Shouldn't you be out burning the German flag and praising Erdogan right now?

>>72751415
>>72751416
t. butthurt weeaboos

>>72751526
>weeaboos
What? Hos is this related at all?

>>72751558
t. butthurt chinaman

>>72751613
t. butthurt aztec

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In finnish it used to be proper to use plural you "te" instead of singular you "sinä" when you wanted to address someone formally, but it mostly fell out of practice in the normal language and can basically only found in the formal letters anymore.

>>72751415
>>72751416

FYI, "progressive culture" and SJW was imported from the USA.

The muslims we have imported back in the 70s as guest-workers were neither running around with Burqua, nor with gaylord skin-tight leather-suits. Those were american inventions. Same as with your brand of SJW feminism, which has literally destroyed the european variant of it, which was rather based on socialist worker's rights and equality at the work-place, and not about how fat bitches get triggered and cry rape by literally everything.

America literally is fault for every degeneration and corruption of traditional progressive thnking.

>>72751768
All progressive thinking is part of the problem.

>>72750543
>addressing teachers
If you want to be polite, you start "Excuse me, but..."

If you used the title, you would sound like immigrant not yet versed in culture or worse.

>>72751768

You guys are way more progressive than over here. The fact that the sjw's are loud and obnoxious over here is because they are a loud vocal minority while they are widely accepted over in Europe

>>72749752
In Dutch we also use mijnheer, which translates as mister, but actually means my lord.

In German as well. .

>>72751830
>the motherland of PC culture talking about other countries

>>72751899

That's France

>>72751803
"Progressive thinking" of the traditional sense is the philosophical tradition of the Enlightment.

What we have now is the degeneration of it, which can be attributed to american social-constructivists.

>>72750223
>yet ONLY in America people use "sire" and other formal titles
incorrect

>>72751927
You are confusing Progressive thinking with Whig thinking. The progressives are an American movement in origin, beginning with the Progressive Party in the late 1800s.

>>72750478
You won't.
There is a title for Proffesor, or some holding a doctorate degree.
But I've never hear anyone call a master's degree anything.

Also, nobody says Sir Dr.anon or Sir. Dr. Proff. Anon. It's just Dr. Anon or Proff. Anon

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>>72752014
>studied law
>everyone now calls me master [last name]

>>72752061
I think law is one of the few degrees where people do that here.

>>72749425
Then what the hell am I supposed to use to politely refer to a man?

>>72752444
xe / xer

>>72752444
(You)

>>72749425
>HURF DURF I'M A FUCKING RETARD
I'd expect this kind of ignorance from an American, not a fucking Swede.

The English not only use sir, they're one of the most backwards fucking countries on the planets in terms of feudalism, with actual knights and dukes still existing.

And let's not get into the feudal roots of formal titles into other languages. To start with the Dutch "meneer', which is a bastardization of "mijnheer/mijn heer". The two are more or less the equivalents of "milord" and "my lord". Or the French "monsieur" which comes from "mon seigneur", once again "my lord". "Madame" is even more obvious, with a dame being the female equivalent of a knight. And then there's the Spaniards and Italians using "Donna" for women they respect and "Don" for men they respect (especially though not exclusively common in the maffia). Hell, look at the Spanish dub for Top Cat: there he is called Don Gato (or Lord Cat effectively).

>>72750798
Slavery predates feudalism, and slavery was not part of feudalism proper

>>72755299
The Magna Carta (England) and Louis X (France) abolished slavery in their homelands (with both countries later on avoiding seeing its consequences through by declaring the colonies to be not really part of the country). That said, serfs often lived and worked in slavelike conditions. Especially in a country like Russia where it lasted until the Russian Revolution.

>>72755458
What I mean is that slavery and feudalism are independent institutions, especially American slavery which was a leftover from modern era mercantilism

>>72755458
>Especially in a country like Russia where it lasted until the Russian Revolution.
Alexandre II abolished serfdom in 1861.

>>72749425
In southamerica people use "usted" and "vos" for 2nd person wich both come from the medieval "vostede"
makes "Vos" zones sound a bit like a medieval poem

Quien de vos merçed espera,
señora, nin bien atiende,
¡ay qué poco se le entiende!

Yo vos serví lealmente
con muy presta voluntad,
e nunca fallé piedad

>>72750269
Germany used to have a load of titles before (((they))) made them become a republic, and they took those really seriously too

They sort of use them as part of their names now

eg. Herr Doktor Professor Graf Helmut von Hertdorf

They still use sir in letters and such and we had to call our teachers sir in secondary school.

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>he doesn't call his father "sir"
Literally non-culture.