RE: Using sir and ma'am to address people...
June 27, 2017 at 3:34 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2017 at 3:36 am by Regina.)
I use "sir" for older men (significantly older, I mean) who I don't know. I would not for someone my age-ish or younger
British people generally don't say "ma'am". If I'm writing formally I will use "Dear Sir/Madam" or if it's a stranger I would probably say "Miss" but I don't often
British people generally don't say "ma'am". If I'm writing formally I will use "Dear Sir/Madam" or if it's a stranger I would probably say "Miss" but I don't often
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
