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- From: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (eleanor.j.evans)
- Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:00:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.210059.27713@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- 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:
- >|>
- >|> Wow, sounds as bad as being named 'Elizabeth' in a decade in which popular
- >|> consensus has decreed that all Elizabeths be called 'Liz'. I often
- >|> introduce myself as Elizabeth Abrams because it sounds more formal and
- >|> adult than Beth Abrams,
- >
- >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)?
- >
- >|> but this often backfires when someone decides
- >|> to call me Liz in attempt to sound friendly (and earns, instead, my
- >|> hostility).
- >
- >If you didn't state your preference clearly during the introduction, then
- >I really don't think hostility is called for, particularly since you
- >realize people are just trying to be friendly.
- >
-
-
-
- "Trying to be friendly" is the operative phrase. Using my first
- name is friendly enough for the "trying to be" stage. I use the
- name people give me when they introduce themselves, and I expect
- them to use the name I give them when I introduce myself.
-
- If Ms. Abrams and I were to meet, and she were to introduce herself
- to me as "Elizabeth", then that is what I would call her, until
- such time as we really were friends. At that time, I expect that
- I would know not to call her Liz, whatever else I might call her
- <evil grin>, and she would know me well enough to tell me to cut
- it out if I called her something she didn't like.
-
- Of course, at this point, I'd probably call her "Beth".....
-
-
- Piglet, but you can call me.....never mind....
-