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Chris
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| | Subject: Do you like being called by your family name? Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:00 am | |
| Do you like it when people refer to you, not by your first name, but instead by your family name?
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Forgiveness Man
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| | Subject: Re: Do you like being called by your family name? Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:28 am | |
| Eh, I got a teacher that does that. It's kind of weird. But I guess I don't MIND. However, more casual relationships, I'd prefer something else. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Do you like being called by your family name? Sun Mar 20, 2011 10:29 am | |
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| | Subject: Re: Do you like being called by your family name? Sun Mar 20, 2011 10:31 am | |
| I guess I don't. Unless you're not someone formal, I don't see why you would. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Do you like being called by your family name? Sun Mar 20, 2011 10:48 am | |
| Doesn't bother me. I like it a whole lot less when strangers in a business setting (like sales people) presume to call me by my first name. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Do you like being called by your family name? Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:06 am | |
| Doesn't matter to me either way. I got used to being called by my last name when I was in the military, but I don't have a preference.
You know what bugs me? That my doctor calls me by my first name, but I'm supposed to address him/her as "Doctor So-and-so." Same thing with professors at school. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Do you like being called by your family name? Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:13 am | |
| If i interact with them on a formal and infrequent basis then it doesn't matter, but when it comes to people like teachers and bosses it always feels kinda patronizing to me. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Do you like being called by your family name? Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:18 pm | |
| - Chris wrote:
- Do you like it when people refer to you, not by your first name, but instead by your family name?
Mr. _________... No, I don't like it at all. If someone outside of a business/professional reason calls me "Mr. Stone," I tell them he died (my dad). If anyone knows me even casually, they can call me "Shale." | |
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| | Subject: Re: Do you like being called by your family name? Sun Mar 20, 2011 7:50 pm | |
| - Chris wrote:
- Do you like it when people refer to you, not by your first name, but instead by your family name?
Mr. _________
Miss/Ms./Mrs. ___________ At this point I'm pretty much used to it. In the military, in an official capacity, it's customary to refer to someone by their rank, then their last name. In a non-official capacity, people often call you simply by your last name. | |
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