Re:Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” whe...
by wenc on Thursday August 31, 2023 @01:24AM
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> So what you’re actually saying now is that any inferred form of address may come across as rude, which means you original suggestion is plain incorrect: splitting given name and family name does not allow generating a genetically never rude form of address, because you can’t know whether the user’s culture favours given names, family names, full names, or even none of the above.
No, that is not it.
Re:Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” whe...
by masklinn on Thursday August 31, 2023 @01:52AM
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> No, that is not it.
Yes, it very much is. You’re declaring that one form of address is rude to your culture, while acknowledging that it is proper to an other culture.
This means the two cultures are completely incompatible on that point, and thus no generic munging method can satisfy both.
And yet your original suggestion was to do exactly that, just in a form suited or at least compatible with your cultural sensibilities.
So what you’re actually saying now is that any inferred form of address may come across as rude, which means you original suggestion is plain incorrect: splitting given name and family name does not allow generating a genetically never rude form of address, because you can’t know whether the user’s culture favours given names, family names, full names, or even none of the above.
And that’s before getting into honorifics and titles.