#you just KNOW kardasi has insanely intricate informal formal super formal friendly familiar distinctions

[2063april5]

I watched a bit of Our Man Bashir in spanish a while back and every so often the knowledge hits me that not only do Julian and Garak still use the formal you for each other after 4 years of weekly book club lunch dates but also that when they're arguing at the beginning (that one scene with the tuxes in which they're standing 2 inches apart) Julian drops it. They're arguing about whether Garak should stay or not and Julian's telling him to "shut up and don't rain on my parade", and I guess he thought it was a little weird to say "kindly shut the fuck up, sir". There's also, I'm sure, some interesting Cardassian cultural connotations in someone telling you to shut your damn mouth in informal speech while standing so close your noses are basically touching.

Then they immediately go back to the formal you and stay that way even after Julian shoots him

#garashir #our man bashir #ds9 #deep space 9 #st: ds9 #julian bashir #elim garak #garak #you just KNOW kardasi has insanely intricate informal formal super formal friendly familiar distinctions #up next: what kind of gymnastics do they pull in the spanish dub to avoid having garak call him querido #i haven't found a single instance of querido doctor either. they're good at beating the gay allegations #hanging out at quark's #spanish dub #kardasi