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England is going down hill...

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Tawakalna

Post Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:20 am

1/ yes, ambassadors. you are correct!

2/ partially correct, but it's not a simple knighthood, a K is a colloquialism for Knight-Commander of the British Empire and is one of the highest civil awards.

3. no on this one (hmmm but you never know what the old german trout is up to behind closed doors) in formally in public they may be called Ma'am or Sir, rather than Your Majesty et al.

but not bad for a Yank! you should test us Brits on aspects of your Americanistic equivalents.

Indy11

Post Sun Feb 01, 2004 10:00 am

Nah. Too easy. Everyone's an honorable this or that. Even the US ambassador is an honorable. Only foreign ambassadors are excellencies.

As for direct address to someone who holds high office, it is equally boring in that one addresses that person by that person's office title, i.e., Mr. President, Mr. Chief Justice, Mr. Speaker blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda.

There's no art to it at all.

Democracy in action, I guess.

Edited by - Indy11 on 2/2/2004 6:33:03 AM

Esquilax

Post Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:49 pm

Yeah, all these bureacractic types are "honourable". Mmm, it's ironic considering the corruption inherent in the bureacractic system...

zlo

Post Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:30 am

And I thought a K was for a thousand of sth

It's better to be a worldwide known drunkard than an anonymous alcoholic!

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