On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Béria Lima <berialima(a)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).
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*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.