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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]But if that were true you would t feel it necessary to blast a PSA to a random message board. You’d just address it (again) with your family and not assume that your personal stance in deciding to take offense at [b]a standard etiquette practice is shared by all[/b]. It isn’t. You just happen to be offended by this and your own relatives won’t listen to your preferences so you are venting on DCUM as though this is a universal issue.[/quote] The standard etiquette practice is to call people what they wished to be called, not what you think they should be called. Also, can you not think if any etiquette practices that used to be standard but are now seen as archaic and outdated? Do you always find evolution so difficult?[/quote] You've got it the directions wrong. Evolution is supposed to ensure the survival of the species by making us stronger, faster, better. I don't see how worrying about this stuff or making it so where people have to remember (or at least write down) 150 individualized naming conventions for 100 different people (can't forget the 2 spirits!) makes us stronger and better as a people. Also, my 3-year old would like his Christmas Cards addressed to Sir T-Rex Vader, Defender of the Galaxy. Please feel free to follow your standard etiquette practice as you see fit.[/quote] Because the point of Christmas cards is to reinforce social bonds, and when you refuse to use someone's name and insist on calling them by the wrong name, it actually weakens those bonds. Consider why you send the cards, when you're waving your hands about how much hassle it is to just change the spreadsheet when someone asks you to call them by their correct name. I think it would be very cute if someone addressed a card to Sir T-Rex Vader - that would show that they actually know and listen to your kid. But if they simply use his actual name instead, it's hard to see why that's a problem. The card is going to the adults anyway.[/quote]
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