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

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>I have NEVER in my life been called by my first name by a telemarketer
>or bank teller.  It's always "sir" and "Mr. Taylor", or at most "(Mr.)
>Nicholas Taylor".  Of course, I'm in the south, where there's still a
>greater tendency to use "sir" and "Mr.".  Interesting north-south
>difference.
I always call older people Sir or Ma'am unless they tell me not to.
Telemarketers here in California at least call me Sir, or Mr. Garcia,
never by my first name. I wouldnt think of calling someone I dont know by
their first name.

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