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- From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
- Message-ID: <7297@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 16:04:06 GMT
- References: > <7260@news.duke.edu> <lh1stdINN3gt@news.bbn.com>
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- In article <lh1stdINN3gt@news.bbn.com> kgorman@bbn.com (Karen Gorman) writes:
- >In article <7260@news.duke.edu>, diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
- >writes:
- >
- >During this introduction, do you state clearly that you prefer to be
- >addressed as Elizabeth or Beth, or whatever you wished to be addressed as
- >(since there are so many nicknames/variations on the name Elizabeth and
- >Robert too)?
-
- Not as such... but since I've just *introduced* myself as Elizabeth,
- it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to deduce that I want to be
- *called* Elizabeth. If I wanted to be called Liz, I'd say, "Hi, I'm
- Liz Abrams." Or "Hi, I'm Elizabeth Abrams. Please call me Liz."
- If someone is "just trying to be friendly", why not ask me if I
- like to have my name shortened, and what I like to have it shortened
- to? I'm a lot more impressed by friendliness when it shows some
- consideration. Calling me "Liz" without asking sounds like phony
- familiarity... anyone unfamiliar enough with me to call me "Liz"
- isn't familiar enough with me to shorten my name in the first place.
-
- --Diamond
-
- diamond@acpub.duke.edu | The soul may choose its own society and shut
- Elizabeth S. Abrams | the door, but the body gets thrown into bed
- | with the damnedest people. --Peter Beagle
-