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Originally Posted by ficbot
Verencat has seen of the kiddie writing I do in French; I teach small children and prefer to use my own materials. I would not hold that up as an 'example' of my French writing by any means because I am greatly constrained by what vocabulary is used by the curriculum I teach with (they don't use 'vous' at all, for example)
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That's interesting. I know that children use "tu" when talking to each other, but wouldn't it be considered rather rude for a child to use "tu" rather than "vous" when talking to an adult, or have times changed now so that's no longer the case?
It's still the case in German that you'd be committing a horrendous "social faux-pas" if you were to use "du" rather than "sie" when talking to someone that you didn't know well.