Stop calling me "Dear".

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Blain Cooper said:
Australian - Hey you bloody cunt, you're fuckin' wrong. Are you daft or just plain stupid?
American - I think you're fucking wrong, and fucking stupid.
Indian - Kindly sir, I disagree with your opinion dear.

WHICH ONE WOULD YOU PREFER?
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That one. The 3rd one sounds like I'm being patronized, which would probably upset me more than someone being straight with me (unless it's a female talking).

That being said, I do understand the concept of beginning a letter or formal text, using the word, "Dear", which is fine. However, after saying "Dear so-and-so", you'd refrain from using "dear" anywhere else in that letter, unless you're referencing another letter or formal piece in quotes, in which case, it would be fairly obvious that you're not calling me, "dear".

I understand that they are trying to be polite and I appreciate that, but by now, wouldn't they notice a trend of no Westerner calling them "dear", back? Or do they think that because of us not saying it back, we're all rude? I mean, after all, they were taught by someone that this is somehow polite to do, right? Wouldn't us not doing it be seen as rude?
 
Lot of you guys/girls are triggered by anything these days.

We are living in a time where we communicate/work with people from different cultures/places and each culture have their own cultural things (shocking, I know). Just do your own shit and they will do their own shit, if someone call you dear, sir....so what, big deal.
 
This "Dear" was started on Jan 21, 2018 and still there's no end card.
 
Toz said:
That one. The 3rd one sounds like I'm being patronized, which would probably upset me more than someone being straight with me (unless it's a female talking).

That being said, I do understand the concept of beginning a letter or formal text, using the word, "Dear", which is fine. However, after saying "Dear so-and-so", you'd refrain from using "dear" anywhere else in that letter, unless you're referencing another letter or formal piece in quotes, in which case, it would be fairly obvious that you're not calling me, "dear".

I understand that they are trying to be polite and I appreciate that, but by now, wouldn't they notice a trend of no Westerner calling them "dear", back? Or do they think that because of us not saying it back, we're all rude? I mean, after all, they were taught by someone that this is somehow polite to do, right? Wouldn't us not doing it be seen as rude?
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Why you bumped thread dear?
 
kind sir, i'm sorry friend, will try to change how i speak dear
 
Legit makes me melt with cringe

What kind of foreign teacher teaches "dear" to non english speakers? Fire him lol.
 
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It rather makes me dumb happy when someone calls me with *dear* because I know that I can negotiate the shit out of these guys.

Believe me you can make them to drop the rates 4-6x times of their service.

If they start with $10 you really can make them give it for $1-3
 
zen19 said:
That's actually correct English when opening a business communication.

I suspect Indians do this as their education system is superior to a great number of western educations when it comes to the academic basics. iinit boi
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