>Interestingly, there are a bunch of other polite pronouns that have fallen out of use in most of the country, and have now taken on a sarcastic/mocking connotation (dânsul/dânsa/dânșii/dânsele for third person, and dumneata for second person).
Funny! I only know Romanian from my grandparents, and I haven't lived in Romania, so I thought these were fairly normal still :)
Actually, I'm saying "most of the country", but what I only know for sure they are out of use in middle-class-ish Bucharest, they may well be alive and well in a lot of the rest of the country. Though I was explicitly taught in school that they shouldn't be used as polite.
Funny! I only know Romanian from my grandparents, and I haven't lived in Romania, so I thought these were fairly normal still :)