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Brandon Jones
@toji.dev

English language "features" that just need to go away: having to ask my kids if their teacher is married or not (which they don't know or care about) before I can write a formal message to them. Unless the teacher is a guy, because then who cares, right? 🙄

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Klaus Weidner
@klausweidner.bsky.social

Personally, I'd just go with "Ms". The nice thing about language is that rules can change over time, and we can do our part to help make that happen. Are there still people who would be genuinely offended when receiving a letter addressed that way?

Brandon Jones
@toji.dev

I doubt that most people would bat an eye at getting the wrong honorific, but attending US public elementary school in the 90s beat it into my skull that *I* should care for some reason.