Béria, I was not calling you out as the only person doing this, you just happened to be the most recent. Certainly we have a tradition in my country of shortening names as well (or just adding the suffix -o or -za to them, so that "John" becomes "Johnno" or "Barry" becomes "Bazza"), but I would never presume to call you "B" or "Bério" or something like that without first being invited to do so. In this case, Jan-Bart has made it abundantly clear that he prefers to be called "Jan-Bart" and not some other name, so we should leave it at that.
Cheers, Craig > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:09:27 -0200 > From: B?ria Lima <berial...@gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012 > Message-ID: > <CAA2XHjBs-3Xkn1yhztoBUwFzPs_KpuhWyQeoH0pYjcy3=je...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Gom? called him Jan at least 3 times today and no one complained. > > Everyone in Brazil calls me "B" (yah, just the first letter) and here is > VERY common to shortening people's names. Is more a way to write it fast > than to offend anyone. I can call him Mister de Vreede if you all find this > ok, but that would be even more condescending (In my country we only threat > people we really dislike by their last name). > _____ > *B?ria Lima* > > *Imagine um mundo onde ? dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter > livre acesso ao somat?rio de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a > construir esse sonho. <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>* > > > On 15 February 2012 23:09, Craig Franklin <cr...@halo-17.net> wrote: > > > I had wanted to keep out of this, but this is the third or fourth time > > that Jan-Bart has been referred to as "Jan". It was an understandable > > enough mistake to make the first time, but it's been pointed out > > enough now that that is no longer an excuse. We do not all have to be > > best of mates, but it is not unreasonable that we all should show some > > basic courtesy towards each other, and taking the time to get each > > other's names right would be a good start. > > > > If you feel that Jan-Bart is being condescending towards you, the best > > solution to that problem is not more condescension thrown back in the > > opposite direction. > > > > Cheers, > > Craig > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l