[INDOLOGY] prof. or mr. or mrs. or ms. etc first name

[Stella Sandahl]

Dear all,
I must confess that I have never really got used to the North American habit of calling everybody by their first name, but I put
up with it.
I don't mind it at all in India, since that is clearly the normal way. However, I certainly resent to be called Madame Stella - sounds like I am running a brothel.
All the best
Stella
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Stella Sandahl
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Toronto ON  M6H 4J5
ssandahl at sympatico.ca
Tel. (416) 530-7755

andhaµ tama˙ pravißanti ye ‘vidyåm upåsate 
tato bhËya iva te tamo ya u vidyåyåµ ratå˙ ||
B®hadåraˆyaka Upanisad IV.4.10

“Those who worship ignorance enter into blind darkness.  Those who are devoted to knowledge enter, as it were, into a greater darkness.”

 



 

On Jun 17, 2015, at 10:26 AM, Patrick Olivelle <jpo at UTS.CC.UTEXAS.EDU> wrote:

> But there is also the typically British titles, where it is Lord + surname; and Sir + first name: Sir Winston, or Sir Winston Churchill, but not Sir Churchill.
> 
> So it may be entirely possible for Indians to create a new idiom: Mr. Patrick, as I am so frequently called.
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 17, 2015, at 8:47 AM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ah, yes, ecclesiatical titles.  Of course.  
>> 
>> "You are old, Father William, the young man said,"
>> 
>> And yet, 
>> 
>> "The Amazing Adventures of Father Brown."
>> 
>> And nobility.  As in one of our own,
>> 
>> Sir James.
>> 
>> ​​Isn't it pleasant to speak of inconsequential matter​s​​, just for a while?
>> 
>> Dominik​
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