Hey, guys, you know me, respectiful, right? Well, most of the time. The rest of the time I’m, well, not always as nice as pie, but I try, I really do try. Same as most of us here, I’d opine.
Got a little problem I’d like to share with you - those who can be bothered to read this, that is.
It’s like this, see.
Some of us here have short names - H-J, for instance. We all know the rest of it , but we, and he, are all happy when we call him just H-J. He knows we are not being disrespectul in any way, after all, he himself calls himself that. Others use their real names, that’s good too, and some of us, like me, have our real names as headers, but call ourselves something else for sheer convenience, as I have had to do all my life, so far.
I get confused though, like any other simpleton, when I see a guy’s name - and I mean no direspect here, since I’m looking for information, not approbium - a guy’s name that begins with a single initial, followed by a proper name, and then his family name.
I just want to know how you address this person politely without either causing offence or making yourself look a total pillock.
Y’see, over here, I have only ever come across this twice before - T. Dan Smith [a union man, long dead] and L. Ron Hubbard [inventor of Scientology] - and I’ve never had cause to address either of them.
So, waddya do?
tac
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