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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten)
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Subject: Re: MS/Miss/Mrs.
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 01:54:49 EST
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> It would be very nice if we just got an all-purpose honorific, and could
> dispense with this whole nonsense.
> 
> --Lee Gold

I find that use of the first name is real nice.  What's with all this
"honorific" crap?  If it's something you use for everyone, then how much
are they honored by it?  I can't tell you the battles I've had with companies,
and undoubtedly, aided and abbetted by their computers, which were aided and
abbetted by their programmers, who simply cannot address a standard computer
generated form letter as:

Dear Sunny

but instead insist on using:

Dear Mr./Mrs./Ms./Miss S. Kirsten.

Hey, I'm not ANY of those! :-)

and furthermore, my middle name is NOT nmn

I have no middle name.  So there.

As I tell my co-workers, please call me Sunny.  If you *have* to use a pronoun,
please use "she".  but do they listen? no.  They want me to conform to *their*
version of reality.  But,  well, nevermind.  I'm tired of being labelled.
-- 
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