Ivorian French. North American French North American dialects of French, including Quebec, Acadian and Louisiana French, permit and expect a far broader usage of the familiar than in European French. There are still circumstances in which it is necessary to say : in a formal interview (notably for a job) or when addressing people of very high rank (such as judges or prime ministers), senior citizens, between professors and students in universities, towards customers or new acquaintances in a formal setting. As acquaintances become familiar with one another, they may find to be unnecessarily formal and may agree to return to the with which they are generally more comfortable. For a number of Francophones in Canada, sounds stilted or snobbish, and archaic. is by no means restricted to intimates or social inferiors. There is however an important minority of people who prefer to be addressed as . At Radio-Canada (the public broadcaster, often considered as establishing the normative objectives of standard French in Canada), the use of is widespread, even among colleagues. Galician Galician uses the personal pronouns ti (in Eastern and part of Central Galician, tu) and vós as the singular informal second person and plural informal second person respectively. Formality is expressed by the use of vostede, instead of ti, with the verb conjugated in singular third person form. The plural form is vostedes. In Galicia, it's common to see instructions and written information, like in museums and bus stops, using the formal pronoun vostede to address the reader. However, it's more likely that a worker and costumer use ti/tu when communicating, or to switch to Spanish with informal pronouns (see Spanish below), than using the formal pronoun vostede. Italian In Standard Italian the informal second-person singular pronoun is and the formal second-person singular pronoun is (inf. "she", lit. "her"), always used with the third-person singular conjugation of the verb. The pronouns may be freely omitted. Despite the original meaning of , modern Italian typically concords with the gender of the addressee when is the sentence subject; using feminine adjectives for a male addressee is not insulting. When is an object, using feminine adjectives is normal (, i.e. "I saw you (m.)"), whereas gender concord is considered non-standard (, i.e. "I saw you (m.)). is normally used in formal settings or with strangers, although it implies a sense of distance (even coldness) similar to the French use of