Language+and+Power

Language can exclude either by intent or by accident: Gordon Brown: "Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure."
 * Michael White, "The gift of tired tongues", //The Guardian//, 30 September 1994; Norman Macrae, "You've never had it so incoherent", //Sunday Times//, 2 October 1994.
 * Speech at an economic seminar, Tuesday 27 September 1994.

The Thai language has a clear delineation in terms of class and gender so that everyone knows the "Pecking order". Do you know if any other language has this? French ( Tu and Vous?)

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