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Cut. Are you kidding me? ConversationInTheMainpage is one thing, but conversation in the trope description...
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**** For the record, most US businessmen would find first-naming to be rude. You might refer to a coworker as \
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**** For the record, most US businessmen would find first-naming to be rude. You might refer to a coworker as \\\"George\\\", or a customer you talk to almost every day, but it would be very strange to get that from a stranger.
*** However, this American troper, who has also spent a few years abroad in Europe, still considers it pompous, or at least unfriendly and off-putting, to demand to be addressed by a last name.
*** Funnily enough this southern born American troper, who\\\'s also been living in Europe for several years, finds the automatic first name thing overly familiar, especially when it relates to supervisors, lecturers, or people\\\'s parents.
*** This UK troper is of the \\\"You say \\\'Mr X\\\', and I turn around to see if my dad\\\'s entered the room\\\" generation.
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