On 07/10/2015 at 11:11 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:50:38 +0100 Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello Lisi, > >> Dear Sirs/Mesdames or even dear Mesdames/Sirs. > > I've *never* received letters addressed in those forms where I work. > We get hundreds per day.
If you substitute in "madams" for "mesdames" (since, AFAIK, "mesdames" is just the French equivalent of the same word), it makes more sense. I had an entire "WTF are you smoking?" reply written up before I realized what she was actually saying. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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