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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
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Subject: Re: MS/Miss/Mrs.
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Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 16:41:38 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?
> ......
> I'm tired of being labelled.
> -- 
> {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny

I sympathize with you but don't agree. I have problems with enforced
joviality in the workplace. I don't particularly like having relative
strangers (I keep my social and professional lives carefully separate)
calling me by my first name. Since being referred to by the last name
has abrupt and rude connatations in American cultures (not necessary
elsewhere), why not a honorific? I agree that this does not solve
the issue of letters addressed to Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms or some such, but ther
is a use for honorifics: to honor someone you respect, to communicate
formally with people you don't know well, etc.

Marcel Simon
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