Mx for intersexed people?

[Benjamin Barrett]

I might get laughed at for doing that today, but what exactly was the
form? "The honorable Tanaka" "Honorable Mr. Tanaka"...?

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