On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Béria Lima berialima@gmail.com wrote:
Gomà called him Jan at least 3 times today and no one complained.
Everyone in Brazil calls me "B" (yah, just the first letter) and here is VERY common to shortening people's names. Is more a way to write it fast than to offend anyone. I can call him Mister de Vreede if you all find this ok, but that would be even more condescending (In my country we only threat people we really dislike by their last name). _____ *Béria Lima*
Jan-Bart and others have asked that you call him Jan-Bart. What part of that is confusing? You can ascribe your first error to different custom; continuing to ignore his wishes is simply arrogant and offensive, which of course I'm sure is not your intent.