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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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@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@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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