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View Poll Results: Is using proper titles in social situations pretentious?
1. Yeah, it's pretentious. 10 45.45%
2. No. They earned it. 1 4.55%
3. It depends. 11 50.00%
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Old 04-05-2011, 04:54 PM   #1
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Old 04-11-2011, 11:09 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by Lazarus Long
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naïve, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
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