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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