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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:01:59 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vqpe9s$208pc$1@dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>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".

I'm reminded of the New York Times, which has an editorial
policy to use such a title when writing about anyone: "Mr
So-and-so" or "Ms Such-and-such".  This includes people that
are otherwise reviled, historically or otherwise.  It was
jarring, sometime shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to
read about "Mr Bin-laden" in the Times.

>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 ?"

Still done.  Sometimes even parents do that to kids.  "Just what
do you think you're doing, Mister?"

	- Dan C.