--- Kendra <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> bnathyuw said:
> > then again i really object to using titles,
> > particularly meaningless ones like mr and ms ( i
> avoid
> > mrs and miss altogether . . . comes of having a
> strong
> > feminist streak in the bloodline )
>
> I find it odd to differentiate between Mrs., Ms.,
> and Miss. I always say
> Miss, regardless; I think this is a fairly common,
> though not ubiquitious,
> practice where I live, as I've never been called on
> it.

I always use missus for all three.

> Then again, I
> personally avoid calling people by their names and
> say "Excuse me" or "Hey."
> :) Does anyone have any conworlds/langs in which it
> is impolite to adress
> someone by their names at all? Some of my characters
> are kind of like that,
> though I think it's just more of a reflection of my
> own odness than anything else.

Daine everywhere share the cultural trait of placing
importance on names, and on knowing the name of a
person and addressing him by the right name. Now, they
may give a name other than one of their true names to
a strange new community or person - but that simply
becomes the name they're known by in that region.

Sailors of Auntimoany never use their old (given)
names once they go to sea. A new sailor is baptised
(tied up by the ankles and dunked three times) and
takes a new name. The sailor's original name, though,
is what the ship's files record and what they go by
while ashore.

> additionally, I always write Ms., and almost always
> (though I can't think of
> any expceptions at the moment) put a period at the
> end of an abbreviation.

I always use "Mrs."; if I'm in a mood, I'll use "M"
and "Mme". I never use "miss.", "Mz." or "Mmlle".
"Mz." is just too dorky, the latter is too long to be
a usefull abbreviation.

> About the ligatures, I too connect ridiuclous
> amounts of letters in
> printing...but in handwriting I stop at random
> intervals too. Uh, hm...let
> me find something, it's interesting. Your
> handwriting, bnathyuw, is really
> cool. :) Wierd and unusal ways of writing are really
> interesting.

Oo. Did we have a sample? I missed that one!

> -Kendra

Padraic.


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