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   > Hello George Pope!   
   > ** On Monday 24.01.22 - 22:31, George Pope wrote to Joe Mackey:   
   >> I write Ms. with the period, even though the Femdoms demand it not have   
   >> one.   
   >> Too bad, she-dog, you said you wanted equality with "Mr."; well, you've   
   >> got it!   
   > I've never encountered or read about the period being a   
   > problem.  Interesting.   But maybe it's just a modern thing   
   > like some people using . instead of - in between the numbers   
   > when writing a telephone number.   
      
   That's a combo French thing & database user thing -- I use xxx.xxx.xxxx so I    
   don't need to prefix the nunber with ' to keep Excel from doing a calculation.   
      
   Then I edit to use hyphens when posting in the header of a fax or body of an    
   ejmail -- for maximum universal recognition.   
      
   It's my fault, IMO, if my business communications are misunderstood.   
      
   The Ms (no period is a holdover of some older women believing the term was    
   invented as a neolgism to avoid defining a womam by her marital status or   
   age;  that may well have been the original intent -- I choose to see it as   
   being  equivalent to Mr. (combines Master(child) & Mister(married/adult))   
      
   I take no nevermind if they are taking offense, whether they or I are right   
   or  wrong -- either way, calm yourself, check yourself, before you wreck   
   yourself.  . .   
      
   Life's short (or is it? It's the longest thing any of us will ever   
   experience,  barring metaphysical afterlife theories, of course); I prefer   
   people to only  take offense when I intend it (a very rare occur   
   ence--likewise my taking  offense that's not 100% clearly intended for me as   
   such, & even then, I  generally CBA. . )   
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5   
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