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Murica!
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« on: December 31, 2014, 10:24:02 PM »
« edited: January 05, 2015, 12:38:17 PM by Murica! »

Comrade all the way for me. Also would like to point out that I don't mean it politically(i.e Genosse  vs. Kamerad in German.)
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« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2014, 10:28:54 PM »

Option 2 (not a communist)
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« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2014, 10:35:57 PM »

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« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2014, 11:06:31 PM »

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« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2014, 11:08:12 PM »

Comrade for sure. Best and most fun way to go
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« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2015, 02:59:51 PM »

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« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2015, 03:33:37 PM »

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« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2015, 09:01:12 PM »

Why do you guys think that only communists say comrade?
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« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2015, 10:03:20 PM »

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« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2015, 10:03:55 PM »

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« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2015, 10:45:26 PM »


This, along with being old-fashioned (I still call people sir and ma'am, for example).
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« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2015, 12:02:54 AM »

Are you parodying me?
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« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2015, 12:06:12 AM »


Real email exchange:

Dear Ms So-and-So,

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Yours sincerely,
Varavour

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Varavour,

Please call me <name>!!! ...

Best,
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I think things are...

Yours sincerely,
Varavour


I find it very difficult to call people by their first names unless they are something like +/- 10 my age, and I'm annoyed when people assume that we're on a first-name basis (when not in that range).
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« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2015, 01:18:29 AM »

Option one is much more attractive. Comrade is neutral along lines of class, sex, gender, and marital status. It originally referred to one with whom a room is shared - or nowadays to a friend, ally, colleague, or fellow traveler.

Mister, misses, and miss meanwhile have ties to master, mistress, and magister. Depending on the time and context they'd imply superior social status, positions of command over economic capital or other people, and reflect sexist relationships in which the roles assigned to women made them subservient to men.
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« Reply #14 on: January 02, 2015, 10:36:32 AM »

What?
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« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2015, 04:59:32 PM »

Option 2. Citizen is preferable to Comrade if we are going to have a single egalitarian/generic title.
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« Reply #16 on: January 02, 2015, 05:30:59 PM »

Option 2. Citizen is preferable to Comrade if we are going to have a single egalitarian/generic title.
Why Citizen though? In my opinion Comrade sounds more "human."
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« Reply #17 on: January 03, 2015, 01:28:24 PM »

'Comrade' is a formal title.
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« Reply #18 on: January 03, 2015, 01:47:24 PM »

"Citizen" (French revolutionary alternative)
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« Reply #19 on: January 03, 2015, 04:30:38 PM »

Taxpayer

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« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2015, 12:22:04 AM »

Even without political connotation, for me comrade feels too personal a word to be used to address strangers. So I prefer citizen for that purpose. I tend to not like formal titles that distinguish.
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« Reply #21 on: January 04, 2015, 12:32:15 AM »

"Citizen" (French revolutionary alternative)

^^^^^^^^^^^^

Not a communist, socialist, or true leftist. 
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« Reply #22 on: January 04, 2015, 01:00:59 AM »

Write-in: use of the informal second-person ("thee"/"thou"), as the Quakers used to do to emphasize their views of social egalitarianism
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« Reply #23 on: January 04, 2015, 01:11:17 AM »

I just call everyone "dawg." It is so much easier.
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« Reply #24 on: January 04, 2015, 05:26:56 AM »

(i.e grossen vs. camaraden in German.)

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Do you mean Genosse and Kamerad?

Anyway, I'd never call one comrade but for joke purposes... I'd just sounds so Soviet Tongue
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