I find "oi, you" works pretty well! ;)
On Feb 16, 2012 3:09 PM, "Sue Gardner" <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 16 February 2012 12:32, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 16 February 2012 11:27, John Du Hart
<compwhizii(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this really something to get upset over? It's not as if he was
calling
you
stupid, he simply misspelled your name (shortened it, really).
People's own names are extremely important to them.
Very true. When I was in school learning journalism, that was the only
way to get an automatic fail: getting someone's name wrong. (Now I say
that, I guess you also failed if you plagiarized or fabricated. But
getting someone's name wrong was the most seemingly-trivial way to
fail.)
While we're on the topic, here's a public service announcement. It's
Bishakha Datta, not Bishaka Datta. The single most-frequently
misspelled name on our lists, AFAICT. Also, Erik Moeller or Erik
Möller with umlaut. Never Erik Moller with no umlaut :-)
Thanks,
Sue
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