On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:07:15 +0100, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
I wouldn't comment Jan-Bart's wish, but I have comparable position toward usage of particular words: If email in my inbox begins with "Dear Milos" (especially in Serbian) by a person not so close to me, I would treat it as over-formal tone. (One of my friends sends such emails to trash automatically.) I would automatically have negative attitude toward that person. There are a couple of other wrong beginnings of email if someone wants my [positive] attention. "Dear Sir" (literally in Serbian "Respected Mister") is worse than "Dear Milos", for example.
Now I am pretty sure I must have written "Dear Milos" on several occasions, since this is what I normally would write. I hope it was fine. Or may be these mails have gone to trash.
I personally have my name misspelt so often that I do not care anymore. If people insist on misspelling it I try to remind tactfully.
Cheers Yaroslav