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May. 26th, 2006 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
polutropeAs I was writing a massive cross-over (11 operas and counting), the question of what to call people came up. There are three variables: The language the opera is in, where the person is from, and where the person they're addressing is from.
For instance, if Leonore, who is from Spain and whose opera is in German, is talking to Violetta, who is French and whose opera is in Italian, should she call her "Madamoiselle"? "Frau"? "Senora"? "Signorina"?
All of them make sense, and I've used all of them at one point or another, which might be OK, as a charaterization thing - for example, if Leonore were concerned with being correct, she might address Violetta as "Madamoiselle" - or "Signorina". I still don't know which one is "the language she speaks."
For instance, if Leonore, who is from Spain and whose opera is in German, is talking to Violetta, who is French and whose opera is in Italian, should she call her "Madamoiselle"? "Frau"? "Senora"? "Signorina"?
All of them make sense, and I've used all of them at one point or another, which might be OK, as a charaterization thing - for example, if Leonore were concerned with being correct, she might address Violetta as "Madamoiselle" - or "Signorina". I still don't know which one is "the language she speaks."
