Mx for intersexed people?

[Wilson Gray]

FWIW, during WWII and for a while thereafter, -san was translated as
"honorable" in movies and comic books.

-Wilson

On 9/16/07, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
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> >> I use this nearly exclusively for the translation of discovery documents
> >> as the translation of the Japanese name suffix -san, meaning Mr./Ms.,
> >> when no first name is given (which is usual) in the documents at hand.
> >> If the intersexual use is near-universal for Mx., I need to quit using
> >> it and revert to the clumsier Mr./Ms.
> >>
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> > I've never seen "Mx." in any sense (which doesn't mean much!).
> > Somewhere I've seen "M." used for "Mr./Ms.", but I can't remember
> > where and I don't know whether it has any currency: anybody else seen this?
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> > -- Doug Wilson
> That would work for my purposes as well, but I concur with Wikipedia
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_%28disambiguation%29#Miscellaneous_abbreviations)
> that this use means Monsieur. BB
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