[EM] The complete list of name abbreviation alternatives

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

James wrote:


Look, I don't know if you're setting out to be disrespectful

I reply:

Absolutely not.

All you'd said was that the abbreviation was incorrect, not that you found 
it insulting or offensive. Now that I know that you do, then I of course 
won't use that one.

You've suggested 3 alternatives:

James Green-Armytage.  Too long.

James.   I'm using that one in this message, as a temporary measure, but it 
isn't a good one, because it doesn't distinguish you from James Gilmour. 
Sure, if I call him James G. and you James, that's different, but some might 
not know that James isn't James Gilmour.

James G-A or James G.A.  Too similar to James G. The use of "A" was because 
it clearly distinguished you from James G.

I'm going to assume that you don't ilke "Jim". So these are the alternatives 
so far:

G.A.
JGA

Which of those would be best? Or is there a different alternative, one that 
doesn't have the disadvantages of the 3 that you suggested?

You continued:

, if you're
just obsessed with saving keystrokes

There's something neater about using one letter to denote a last name. 
One-letter last initials can distinguish you from James G. Someone could 
argue: One letter to a customer. But, as I said, it was mostly the fact that 
James G.A. is too similar to James G.

Mike Ossipoff

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