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| location | Jacksonville, FL | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 9 months |
| seen | Feb 19 at 19:00 | |
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Apr 30 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Mar 9 |
awarded | Notable Question |
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Feb 14 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Nov 7 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Aug 3 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Nov 7 |
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Addressing a senior female in formal mail My tone was perhaps defensive :), but I still insist that neither are inappropriate... (In the US at least) It's perfectly acceptable to address a letter to an unknown recipient to "Dear Sir or Madam", and even in informal situations, it's not uncommon to address colleagues, not even superiors as Sir or Ma'am... If it's not the most appropriate answer that is one thing, but I still fail to see how it warrented downvotes... I will say that if you know their last name, then Ms, or Mrs is always good, but I always worry that I'll screw up their marital status :) |
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Nov 7 |
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Addressing a senior female in formal mail @Kate Gregory, I disagree... Madam chairman or madam president is completely appropriate... The author said senior, they didn't say how high ranking... I still don't understand why the downvotes... Because I quoted the King's Speech?? Had I not quoted the kings speech, no one would have made the queen association because fundamentally, madam is the correct and appropriate name for several titles that are not the queen... And Ma'am is just common courtesy. You should call your mother Ma'am. |
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Nov 4 |
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Addressing a senior female in formal mail why the down vote? |
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Nov 4 |
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Addressing a senior female in formal mail added 110 characters in body |
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Nov 4 |
answered | Addressing a senior female in formal mail |
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Oct 16 |
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Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry Don McLean was known to be mysterious with his lyrics... He wouldn't openly disclose what any of American Pie meant. And the parts of the song that people have figured out are incredibly esoteric and specific to the sign of the times that he wrote it. |
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Oct 15 |
answered | What is the origin of surnames based on color? |
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Oct 11 |
answered | Meaning of “triple up” |
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Oct 5 |
answered | What phrase is less idiomatic than “softball question”? |
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Oct 3 |
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What's a word for the opposite of Accountability? I disagree w/ the connotations that laissez faire would bring. It's typically in relation to government restricting (or not restricting) private enterprise, not self-regulation. If you used that word, I (as the reader) would assume that the gov't would have put regulations in place after the war... Also, as one other note, (from wikipedia): "The phrase laissez-faire is French and literally means "let do", but it broadly implies "let it be", or "leave it alone.""... All of these imply a subject of "You [let it be]", not "We [let it be]" |
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Oct 2 |
answered | Is the idiom “in order” in order here? |
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Sep 30 |
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An idiom for deriving pleasure from another's suffering THAT definition of sadistic didn't include anything sexual... If you'll click on the Sadistic link above you'll see the first definition of it is: "1.Deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others." I picked a definition further down the list that didn't include sexual gratification to show that it didn't have to be sexual. |
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Sep 30 |
answered | An idiom for deriving pleasure from another's suffering |
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Sep 29 |
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“It's a-me !” — just an imitation of an Italian accent or something more? deleted 47 characters in body |
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Sep 29 |
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“Unexplainable” vs “Inexplicable” way to pull out the n-gram viewer! |
