This is an interesting paper on courtesy titles: <br><br><a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/aral/article/viewFile/1941/2324">http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/aral/article/viewFile/1941/2324</a><br>
<br>Zoltan Boka, <br>CUNY Graduate Center<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:04 AM, John F Sowa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sowa@bestweb.net" target="_blank">sowa@bestweb.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 1/2/2013 11:09 PM, Hardie, Andrew wrote:<br>
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Baker, P. (2010) Will Ms ever be as frequent as Mr?<br>
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The second letter of those titles can now be replaced with x,<br>
as in a variable or an unknown. See the following quotation:<br>
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Born physically male, Bond is transgender and eschews gender-<br>
specific honorifics and pronouns, preferring, respectively,<br>
"Mx." (in place of "Mr." or "Ms.") and "V" ("vself" instead<br>
of "himself" or "herself").<br>
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Source:<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Vivian_Bond" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<u></u>Justin_Vivian_Bond</a><br>
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Language evolves with the culture and the technology<br>
available for changing the culture.<br>
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To answer Baker's question, I suspect that titles will be dropped.<br>
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I rarely see titles of any kind in emails, chat, and messages.<br>
Does anyone have statistics about changing frequencies?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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John Sowa</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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