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- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Path: sparky!uunet!s5!sethb
- From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
- Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.003925.5742@fid.morgan.com>
- Organization: my opinions only
- References: <lh1stdINN3gt@news.bbn.com> <7297@news.duke.edu> <lh25e4INN5u4@news.bbn.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:39:25 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <lh25e4INN5u4@news.bbn.com> kgorman@bbn.com (Karen Gorman) writes:
- >In article <7297@news.duke.edu>, diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
- >|> In article <lh1stdINN3gt@news.bbn.com> kgorman@bbn.com (Karen Gorman) writes:
-
- >|> 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."
- >
- >Or how about; "Hi, I'm Elizabeth Abrams. Please call me Elizabeth."
- >Direct and clear. This way you can save all your "hostilities" for someone
- >who truely derserves them.
- >
- >|> 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?
- >
- >But you're forgetting, you are the one with the preference. IMO, stating
- >the rules in the beginning is the best and fairest way to proceed.
-
- There's a difference between being friendly and being overly familiar.
- Using a diminutive of someone else's name without permission is
- insulting (haven't we just had that thread?). Using someone's first
- name is friendly (in the US; it's considered overly familiar in Europe
- unless you know the person very well).
-
- >|> 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.
- >
- >Make sure they understand this right from the introduction.
-
- Anyone unfamiliar enough with her to call her "Liz" isn't familiar
- enough to use her first name at all. Beth, (I can call her that, she
- signed email to me that way) have you tried correcting anyone who
- called you Liz that your name is "Ms. Abrams"? (I wonder how long
- they'd take to catch on.)
-
- Seth sethb@fid.morgan.com
-