Re: Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ?

In article <vqpe9s$208pc$1@dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

On 2025-03-10, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com> wrote:

On 3/10/2025 14:25, Simon Clubley wrote:
  

BTW, I wonder if Mr Trump realises that you can't even make modern
high-performance processors without critical European technology...

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I wouldn't give him the respect that the honorific "Mr" conveys.
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Over here, it's just a polite way some people use to refer to someone
in a neutral way in situations like this. No respect is intended by
the use of the word "Mr".

I'm reminded of the New York Times, which has an editorial
policy to use such a title when writing about anyone: "Mr
So-and-so" or "Ms Such-and-such".  This includes people that
are otherwise reviled, historically or otherwise.  It was
jarring, sometime shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to
read about "Mr Bin-laden" in the Times.

OTOH, there is/was a use that is directly applicable here. :-) I don't
know if they still do it these days, but in times gone by some teachers
would talk to a misbehaving child in this way:
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"Mr Smith." <slight pause> "What makes you think _that_ was acceptable ?"

Still done.  Sometimes even parents do that to kids.  "Just what
do you think you're doing, Mister?"

- Dan C.