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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:37:00 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-10, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com> wrote:
> On 3/10/2025 14:25, Simon Clubley wrote:
>    
>> BTW, I wonder if Mr Trump realises that you can't even make modern
>> high-performance processors without critical European technology... 
>
> I wouldn't give him the respect that the honorific "Mr" conveys.
>

Over here, it's just a polite way some people use to refer to someone
in a neutral way in situations like this. No respect is intended by
the use of the word "Mr".

OTOH, there is/was a use that is directly applicable here. :-) I don't
know if they still do it these days, but in times gone by some teachers
would talk to a misbehaving child in this way:

"Mr Smith." <slight pause> "What makes you think _that_ was acceptable ?"

Simon.

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Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.