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Mr. Bob French Fries, M.D., Ph.D People should do what they want with pronouns in email signatures. But I don’t understand why you can’t string these together
by keybored 2y ago
Mr. Bob French Fries, M.D., Ph.D
People should do what they want with pronouns in email signatures. But I don’t understand why you can’t string these together.
- llamaimperative 2y agoSounding pretentious (for one's own tastes) is a perfectly defensible reason not to do this. I don't know anyone who enjoys Mr/Ms/Mrs.
- keybored 2y agoI see no difference in pretentiousness between the two styles.
- llamaimperative 2y agoSure, but it's not your name.
- keybored 2y agoRight, I misread this part. I thought the pretentious part was using your titles in your name. Not the Mr/Mrs thing. Oh well.
- tolien 2y agoAs an example (the DoD has almost 2 million personnel on active duty/reserve/guard), "Capt. J Bond USN".
- Balgair 2y agoOne I've heard a lot from boomers is: "Mr. Doe is my father. Call me John" And yes, even the 70 year olds still do this around me, and yes, I find it really weird too.
- jdgoesmarching 2y agoI don’t understand why you’re going through all these weird lengths to solve a problem that pronouns more optimally solve and cover more use cases (e.g. nonbinary people).