Loek van Kooten, MA
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐I know I am not the only person who finds the insistence of the #NYTimes to continue referring to people with #honorific or courtesy titles, such as "Mr. Surname", instead of simply "Surname", to be offensively #pretentious, no to mention hopelessly #outdated in the 2020s.
What's the politest Japanese word you know? Drop it below. All ten meanings of mesu (召す) are on learn.japanology.nl. Quiz yourself and see how many you remember tomorrow. #Japanese #LearnJapanese #Kanji #JLPT #WordOfTheDay #Japanology #Keigo #Honorific #JapaneseLanguage #JapaneseCulture #StudyJapanese
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈The #UnitedStates of #Aunties: The #culture #powering #VicePresident #KamalaHarris' #campaign
In the #Black and #SouthAsian #communities Harris hails from, being an “#auntie” is an #honorific for #caregivers, #communitybuilders — and maybe even the next #president
https://19thnews.org/2024/08/the-united-states-of-aunties-culture-kamala-harris/
Davels it reasonable to use Mx as an #honorific for someone whose #gender you don't know? I mean, I can guess based on the first name, but that feels pretty ick to me. It feels like the more inclusive thing to do is go with the most general and let them correct me if they prefer? But that also feels like maybe not entirely respectful to people who genuinely prefer Mx? And possibly confusing to others?
Is there a better honorific that I'm not thinking of?
I'm probably #overthinking this...
LordWoolamalooAmused to note on book supplier's website that while most authors simply have forename and surname listed, Steinbeck is listed as "Mr John Steinbeck" 😁 Loving the addition of "Mr"
रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Yes, please:
"Stop Calling Professors 'Professor'", Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-07-20/stop-calling-professors-professor).
#Title #Honorific #Equality #Egalitarianism #English #Language
FiXato (fallback)@sohkamyung
based on the comments, names ending in -dr (e.g. 'Aleksandr') will also get parsed as the #honorific 'Dr'.
The 'solution' apparently is to make sure you have an honorific specified, so it doesn't choose to do 'automagic' parsing of the name. In which case, I hope (but doubt) they support the inclusive honorific 'Mx.'