Re^4: [Culture] brian d foy name is allways lower case: why?

When you don't know someone well enough to konw that they like Randal better than Randy the proper and respectful way to address them is by there given name. I should have said "If a person doesn't know you then the way that they address you respectfully is by capitalizing your name."

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Re^5: [Culture] brian d foy name is allways lower case: why? by merlyn (Sage) on May 15, 2006 at 23:10 UTC
OK, you're clearly forgiven if you had never seen `brian`'s name in print. But the question here was about using the name having already seen it, I presume. Your answer is more like "if I don't know his name, I guess I'll call him Randal". That doesn't make much sense. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re^6: [Culture] brian d foy name is allways lower case: why? by eric256 (Parson) on May 16, 2006 at 20:52 UTC
"Your answer is more like "if I don't know his name, I guess I'll call him Randal". That doesn't make much sense." I think we lost topic somewhere in there. The original question was "why does every one keep refering to brian d foy with all lower case?" Which brian then answered with a kind odd response claiming that it wasn't odd at all for him to want his name in all lower case, but it IS odd because it is not what we expect. When in doubt we expect anyones name to be capitalized. My argument wasn't that people should call him Brian, just that it is obvious why they would want to and why they are confused that he doesn't want them to. In fact I still have no idea why he doesn't want it capitalized but thats his perogative. ___________ Eric Hodges	[reply]