Re: CHAT: "Mister" (WAS: Re: New Lang: Igassik)

Roger Mills wrote:

>Probably by senior year, and certainly in graduate
>courses, its all first names, except maybe with very senior faculty.
By my senior year I was on a first name basis with nearly all the faculty,
even the senior ones.

>Rant dept:  Sometimes we carry this firstname stuff too far.  I resent being
>addressed as Roger by bank tellers, telemarketers and others of that ilk
>with whom I have no other social interaction.  Probably the only facet of my
>personality that can be called conservative.  End rant.
I agree. I have a friend who likes to be called "Ben". Everybody who uses
his first name calls him by that name. But whenever telemarketers or bank
tellers talk to him, they use "Benjamin". It stands out as so completely
artificial, because that is not what anybody who knows him actually says.
It is more annoying than friendly.




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