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Addressing project managers formally or informally- thoughts?
Thread poster: Elisabeth Coles
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 08:17
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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Baran May 18, 2022

Baran Keki wrote:

So a complete Portuguese stranger can say "Hi Sandra, thanks for your reply" on a Kudoz thread?


Yes, and I see no problem with that It's my name after all.

For instance, you're familiar with that Turkish guy called Atıl here, right? There's no way I can just call him "Atıl" on a Turkish forum thread even if I'm familiar with the guy (I have to call him "Mr. Atıl"), but if I were to address him on an English forum thread, then I could just call him "Atıl" and he probably wouldn't mind me doing that. I don't know if this makes any sense to you. But that's how it is.


Define familiar, please. No, I don't know "Mr Atil".

Please don't ever call me "Mr. Keki", the sound of it reminds me of a certain Luxembourgian character


I'm sorry Never again.

Baran Keki
 
Kevin Fulton
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United States
Local time: 03:17
German to English
Mixed May 18, 2022

My British and American PMs have always used my first name from the start which is not at all unusual.
My European (mainly German and Austrian) PMs have always started out with "Mr." (or "Dr."), but many switch almost immediately to Kevin. Some use the familiar form of address (which I always reciprocate), but some continue to employ more formal pronouns (likewise reciprocated). The PMs at one agency immediately used the familiar, but the owner always remained formal with respect to both h... See more
My British and American PMs have always used my first name from the start which is not at all unusual.
My European (mainly German and Austrian) PMs have always started out with "Mr." (or "Dr."), but many switch almost immediately to Kevin. Some use the familiar form of address (which I always reciprocate), but some continue to employ more formal pronouns (likewise reciprocated). The PMs at one agency immediately used the familiar, but the owner always remained formal with respect to both honorific and personal pronoun.

I don't care much about niceties like that as long as the payment is on time. (As the expression goes: "Call me anything you like, but not late for dinner!) ▲ Collapse


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