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Old Dec 8, 2024 | 12:51 am
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Originally Posted by BA or bust
Interesting, there are 19 options in English! Now (being a fluent Spanish speaker) I know that a few won’t translate very well, but some can be translated easily e.g. Captain is Capitan and Professor is Profesor. So a tad lazy by BA IMHO. After all, some people want others to address them by their ‘proper’ title that they are ‘entitled’ to!
Well I'm more or less the opposite approach - I'm from a Quaker family and obviously honorifics are very strongly discouraged. And in truth I really don't see what value they add as a passenger. I'm still not able to bring myself to use the honorific Mx but I did try to wind up BA in the early days of BAEC, when it was more rudimentary computing (which tended to work). There was a box for "Other" if you couldn't use Bishop or Viscount (etc), so I wrote in Comrade. So for years my posted BAEC statements arrived as Comrade corporate-wage-slave. One year I had cause to enter into written correspondence with BAEC and I was terribly impressed that someone in BAEC correctly wrote to me using the honorific Cde.
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