A sign/abbreviation for "magister"

Martin J. Dürst via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Wed Oct 31 02:27:47 CDT 2018


On 2018/10/31 03:51, Marcel Schneider via Unicode wrote:
> On 30/10/2018 at 18:59, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
>>
>> Marcel Schneider wrote:
>>
>>> This use case is different from the use case that led to submit
>>> the L2/18-206 proposal, cited by Dr Ewell on 29/10/2018 at 20:29:
>>
>> I guess this is intended as a compliment.
> 
> Right.
> 
>> While many of the people you
>> quoted do have doctoral degrees, many others of us do not.

And even those who have such degrees don't expect them to be used on a 
mailing list.

> Making a safe distinction is beyond my knowledge, safest is not to discriminate.

Yes. The easiest way to not discriminate is to not use titles in mailing 
list discussions. That's what everybody else does, and what I highly 
recommend.

Regards,    Martin.



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