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Language question:

Why is it dir instead of du in this context?

(Jeru War and Piss, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 1:40, archived)

du is personal, dir is more formal?

I haven't done german in quite a while.

(emcake putting a donk on it since, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 1:45, archived)

I thought sie was the formal one

Or was it Sie. I could have sworn sie was she they and you formal but I haven't done german in years.

(Jeru War and Piss, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 1:47, archived)

yup, "Sie" is formal of "du" and "Ihn" is formal of "dir"

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drbroon abloooobloobloo, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 2:06, archived)

Fucking A, I am captain memory!

It's Sie capitalised as formal and sie lowercase as she and they then?

(Jeru War and Piss, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 2:08, archived)

yes

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drbroon abloooobloobloo, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 2:14, archived)

hmm

"dir" means yourself. "du" means "you"

zum Beispiel: "Dir ist eine sexy Schlampe" or "Ich finde dich sexy, du schlampe" or "Du bist eine sexy Schlampe, du verdammte Schlampe"*

*- none of these are necessarily grammatically correct.

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drbroon abloooobloobloo, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 1:47, archived)

So you can say 'yourself is'

instead of saying 'you are' essentially.

I honestly don't remember ever encountering dir at school, worryingly.

(Jeru War and Piss, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 1:50, archived)

yes. for example: "Wie geht's dir?" (how are you?)

is answered "Mir geht's gut"

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drbroon abloooobloobloo, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 1:54, archived)

I've literally only ever heard "Wie geht's?"

Which is "How goes it?" to my knowledge.

Damn German, it's the only language other than English I can speak passably and it's possibly the least impressive sounding.

(Jeru War and Piss, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 1:57, archived)

If I remember correctly

you use dir or du with written correspondence, since just 'wie geht's' is quite informal.
You could argue that b3ta is essentially just a conversation, though.

(emcake putting a donk on it since, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 2:11, archived)