Let’s say there’s someone I want to call Mr/Ms/Mrs [Name], but I don’t know their gender, is there a title I can use that doesn’t assume their gender?

  • poppy@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Too bad we can’t adopt the Japanese “-san” honorific, as it is gender neutral!

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    1 year ago

    I have started just using M. Like, “Dear M. Lastname”. I saw it being done in French and just adopted it for English too. No one’s complained yet. (Have also seen Mx. but figure that could be confusing.)

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      1 year ago

      A sci-fi book from 1991 used that (Hyperion), and I thought it was just futurespeak. TIL!

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    1 year ago

    Slightly off topic but I really like the approach where the honorific is just dropped entirely. So just [Name]. No Mr/Ms/Mrs. It mostly doesn’t serve any purpose anyway.