Bazaar-NG Traffic #3 Prerelease

James Blackwell jblack at merconline.com
Wed Oct 19 02:12:15 BST 2005


On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:48:00AM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:05:40AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > If we ever have more than one person with the same first name I think
> > you could just say their whole name repeatedly.
> 
> I think just using the first letter of the last name is enough,
> and it reads friendlier.

I'll go with a derivative of Martin's suggestion: 

* Full name on first mention, always
* First name only, when no conflict in that traffic for that name
* Full name for both when there is a conflict.

As a side note, referring to last name is a common convention in the
American version of : 

  * Newspapers
  * References in non-fiction
  * Graduate Thesis' (Thesii? Thesises?)
     * Philosophy
     * Logic & Debate
     * Physics
     * History
     * Literature 






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