Quoth Philip Hazel on Wed, Mar 12, 2003:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:
>
> > [1] In the commonwealth (where I live), it's rude to just call someone
> > of Phil's callibre by his bare name. I may be wrong but if my
> > primary school teacher (r.i.p) would wake up today, I'd be in for
> > a thorough bashing if he overhead me calling Philip just Philip!
>
> I'm flattered :-) but I've never been particularly bothered about
> nominative formality or titles or parading my qualifications.
Most people of your calibre (as opposed to your academic degree)
don't tend to care about these things. I knew a Ph.D. who once
raised hell because a bank clerk didn't call her "Doctor", and
she hasn't ever written a mailer daemon ;)
Vadik.
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