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I'm sorry, I must've misunderstood you. You weren't talking about using foreign terms when domestic ones would do, but pronominal paradigms with strange hijinks? I think most of the European lgs did it.
German
du / Ihr ~ Sie / Sie
where ihr is youse informal and her, and sie is she, they, and you formal sg/pl.
In English, lawspeak we use Your Honor and 3PS. Go figure.
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