Re: [Patents] MEPs calling for "strong sanctions" against "any intellectual property infringement"

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

> > This is the sort of thinking that drove another infamous bearer of the 
> > name
> > "McCarthy", indeed it is called "McCarthyism" for precisely that reason.
> > When I see the name "McCarthy" in these emails I tend to immediately think
> > of that man. Now it appears it's not just the name that's similar.
>
> That's another good reason for omitting the "Mrs".

Sorry, that refers to a private discussion we have had about how polite
one should be in texts that refer to politicians.  I prefer the newspaper
style, e.g. "Fourtou", "Manders", "McCarthy" etc, without "Mrs.", "Mr.",
"Mrs.".

In the eigthies newspapers at least in Germany always spoke about "Frau
Thatcher" and never "Herr Reagan".  Fortunately that asymetry has
disappeared.  At the Europarl there is however a certain climate of
deference, so one might also consider writing "Her Excellence Arlene
McCarthy" each time.  I prefer not to, not because I don't value MEPs but
because I value the readers, for whom such redundancy is a pain.