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This tag has two distinct purposes: 1) How to address persons (since there is also the salutation tag, this might be the better choice in those cases) 2) issues connected with postal adddresses

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How did the polite form "Sie" evolve? [duplicate]

On the one hand because the 3rd person address rather signalises being superior to one's counterpart (as in 'Hat er seine Arbeit schon verrichtet?') … Therefore I wonder: Why and how has the form "Sie" as today's standard polite address in the German language evolved? …
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