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zotz ([personal profile] zotz) wrote in [personal profile] simont 2006-07-18 04:02 pm (UTC)

perhaps the use of somebody's name often occurs as a more general signal that they're exasperating you or being slow in some fashion.

That certainly fits with the way I do it. I almost never say people's names to them unless I'm having a hard time getting a simple point through to someone I suspect of missing the point on purpose. Naming no names, obviously. Otherwise, the only time I've really come across it is in salesmen.

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