Mr. Pistorius, I have Mrs. Ms.* Morissette on the phone…
Not long ago, we discussed Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee who used prosthetics to complete at this summer’s Olympic Games. That conversation coupled with this latest development makes me want to start singing Mrs. Ms. Morissette’s very ironically titled song…
*UPDATE*
I have yet again indefensibly fudged the proper honorific. An unfortunate pattern is emerging, one which I clearly must pay more and better attention to. My apologies to anyone I might have offended.
“Mrs.” Morissette?
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WTF?Report
According to her Wiki, Alanis Morissette was married in 2010. If I have (again) erred in applying the appropriate honorific, I will (again) apologize and amend. Can you shed some light on your objection?Report
Morissette is her name, not her husband’s name, so “Mrs. Morissette” is incorrect. This kind of thing is one of the reasons “Ms.” was invented.Report
Duly noted. I thought about that for a second, actually, but not enough to actually take the time to do it right. Update coming. Thanks.Report
Now the title is fixed, but not the body. (That is, Ms. Morissette’s title in the post’s body. With the wrench.)Report
Thanks. I had fixed that one and then in my attempts to properly enter the HTML manually in the Title field (which doesn’t just have buttons like the Body field), I lost it.
I should probably just start referring to people without honorifics. Or just resign myself to grunting and banging on the keyboard.Report
grunting and banging on the keyboard
That’s what I do for a living.
Years ago now, when I was working at a client site, a woman who had just graduated from college was assigned to work with me so she could take over the system I was building after I was done. By the end of my tenure there, not only was she familiar with the architecture and maintenance procedures, when things went wrong she made the same annoyed noises I did.Report
“…grunting and banging on the keyboard…”
It also explains like, 45% of the music made in the 80’s.Report
This is one of the key virtues of Ms. as a title, it lets you describe a woman without needing to know her marital status.Report
“makes me want to start singing Mrs. Morissette’s very ironically titled song… ”
Head over Feet?Report
GODDAMNIT!Report
I thought her ironically title song was Ironic..Report
…that’s what I was going for… I’m assuming Kolohe was jokingly poking a bit of fun, to which I jokingly responded exasperated…Report
Ah. I thought you were going for “Eight Easy Steps”, which is also titled ironically, and tried to poke some literal-minded fun, but hit on the correct title by mistake. That’s kind of ironic.Report
I think we’ve officially broken the “Irony Meter”…Report
It’s “ironic” that that song got as much airtime as it did.Report
Honorifics just keep tripping us up, don’t they?Report
Yes, Ma’am.Report