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Originally Posted by Cartuni
I hate it when I’m introduced to someone (at a party, for example) and they proceed to insert my first name into every sentence they say to me.
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That strikes me as peculiar... repeating someone's name shows that you're listening and making a real effort to remember them. I do it when I care to remember the people I'm meeting and I almost never remember the people whose names I don't repeat. Words are words. I wish people would stop reading into certain of them so much in situations where the intention is clearly not malicious. Sure, sometimes I'm caught off guard by a "hon" or a "sweetie" from a stranger, but it usually doesn't mean anything more than that the person happens to like using those words a lot. It's not about me and I usually figure that out eventually.