Author: gerold daniels
Date: 06:40:28 07/29/05
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On July 29, 2005 at 04:30:43, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >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. > Thanks for imfor. on the customs of your country. Of course i respect that and will follow that when talking to Eduard. I will behave if you do. :) Gerold. >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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