Date: 03 Mar 2000 12:30:47 -0800 From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/contrib chapter.sgml Message-ID: <vqcya7ziyo8.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of "Thu, 02 Mar 2000 11:09:59 -0700" References: <38BE7B3D.AF373040@newsguy.com> <200002280315.TAA81734@freefall.freebsd.org> <200003021809.LAA16928@harmony.village.org>
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* From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
* name. If you didn't know him well, you'd address him as
* YAMAMOTO-san. If you did know him well, you might be able to address
* him as hisashi-san. I do know that adressing him w/o the -san is an
* extreme insult.
It's not an "extreme insult", it's just considered rude. It's ok to
do that if you know the person well and/or *he* is your
subordinate/junior. (It's almost never ok to do that if you are
talking to a woman - it's better to always use "-san".)
By the way, my family name is Asami, but I don't mind being called
Satoshi-san or even Mr. Satoshi. But it might get confusing with
Taoka-san also on the ports list. :)
Satoshi A.
P.S. If a Japanese spells his/her name "Foo Bar", then you can pretty
much assume "Bar" is the Family name. When the family name comes
first, it will be in in all caps or at least have a comma.
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