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Re:Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” whe... by kuschku on Thursday August 31, 2023 @08:00AM (#37335826)
It turns out the people who want to be addressed by neutral gender usually don't care as much about Siezen and honorifics, so the systems I built usually just go with "Hallo" or "Moin". I even had one system which would go with "Sehr geehrte/r" for people who had chosen a title or set their language preference to "Deutsch (Sie)" and with "Moin" for everyone else.
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Re:Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” whe... by nicbou on Thursday August 31, 2023 @10:23AM (#37337614)
Moin is not a good way to address your Ausländerbehörde case worker though. I'd go for the more disarming Hallöchen Popöchen.
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