Timeline for Could I address someone by first name in business emails if he/she addresses me by first name?
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| Mar 16, 2013 at 1:51 | vote | accept | phil | ||
| Mar 6, 2013 at 11:29 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | Related (possible dupe): english.stackexchange.com/q/53366/8019 | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 10:44 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 6, 2013 at 3:25 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | What @John said. It's just etiqette. I'd have thought for most people (Anglophones or not) the general principle is "do as you would be done by". So by implication, you copy the other's forms of address unless you've got some special reason not to adopt the "local (to him, at least) custom & practice". | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 2:11 | answer | added | Jackson | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Mar 6, 2013 at 1:13 | comment | added | Fortiter | A complicating factor is that the signature block on the email may be applied automatically in the same form to every message regardless of how the person might "prefer" the addressee to refer to him in reply. | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 1:11 | comment | added | John M. Landsberg | I don't see this as a language question. It is an etiquette question, pure and simple. For what it's worth, however, generally (not always) you choose how to address a person based on how you address that person in conversation. If you have never spoken in person, use the title and last name, unless your social position is clearly and definitively that of someone who would use the first name if you were having a conversation. | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 0:54 | history | asked | phil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |