Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 01:30:43 07/29/05
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On July 29, 2005 at 00:17:24, gerold daniels wrote: >On July 28, 2005 at 19:40:56, Peter Berger wrote: > >>On July 28, 2005 at 16:11:11, Eduard Nemeth wrote: >> >>>Rolf, >>> >>>als ich geboren wurde, wurde ich missverständlich tatsächlich Edward genannt! >>>Erst als meine Eltern es bemerkten, wurde der Name korrigiert, denn meine Eltern >>>(da meine Mutter deutsche ist) wollten immer dass ihr Sohn "deutsch" Eduard >>>heißt, und nicht Edward (eher englischer Ausdruck). >>> >>>So habe ich auch keine Probleme damit, wenn man meinen Vornamen 'mal >>>verwechselt, und mich Edward nennt, statt Eduard. ;) >>> >>>Aber als unhöfliche Anrede nur, "Hi Nemeth", dass ist mir so in den Foren noch >>>nie passiert, außer einer sich seltsam benimmt. Oder ist Edward bzw. Eduard ein >>>so seltener Name? Wohl kaum! >>> >>>Gruss, >>>Eduard. >> >>Madhavan ist ein junger Inder. Ihm gehts wie Dir - er weiss auch nich immer wie >>man was am Besten auf Englisch schreibt, selbst wenn er Englisch ein bisschen >>besser kann als Du. >> >>Grad das mit den Vor- und Nachnamen ist in Indien total anders. Kein Grund für >>große Aufregung denk ich. >> >> >>For Madhavan: both in English and even more in German adressing someone by his >>surname alone or without a Mr is extremely impolite. Especially for a German >>reader it will most likely be perceived as an overt insult. So this would be >>something to take into account I guess. >> >>Peter > >Hello Peter. Here in the u.s. A lot of people refer or address a person by >there last name. If a person is known well and is a friend you call them by >their first name. If i don,t know the person very well i prefer to by called >Danies my last name. In the military most people were called by their last name. >I didn't know that it was impolite or an insult to call someone by their >last name.Its not the case here. Here you have it before you. You claim a practice which is from military. Fine. But we all know that military means ranking orders. You want to tell me that you could call a General with simply his last name instead of the polite "Sir"? Don't fool around here. If you have practice already you MUST know that there are other possibilities to express your respect to persons you simply dont know. To those persons you can say "Sir" or "Mr." the latter combined with the last name. If you are writing here in such a forum, for whatever reasons, you are responsible for your language which shouldn't directly insult other members with your first written words. I hope you can agree. Please simply behave. Thanks. NB that we dont talk about details you never know as a foreigner. But we all learned at school that a simple Mr. or Mrs. in front of a name is the appropriate address form. Has nothing to do with brown-nosing. If you like you simply let out all direct addressing. You can write hundreds of messages without even mentioning other peopl's names or gender. You then simply talk about topics.
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