[Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012

[CherianTinu Abraham]

Am I the one person feeling that the way this debate is going in a stupid
direction that is totally irrelevant to the scope of this list ?
I thought we were to discuss " Movement roles letter, Feb 2012 ". Just a
gentle reminder ! :P

Regards
Tinu Cherian

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru>wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:07:15 +0100, Milos Rancic <millosh at 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
>
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