Dear Mr Condi Rice
Understandably, perhaps, the Financial Times didn’t publish the following letter that I submitted to it earlier this month:
“Your defence correspondent attributed the French foreign minister’s greeting of the new US Secretary of State as "Cher Condi" (FT 19-20 February, p. 11) to the effectiveness of her charm offensive. If M. Barnier was correctly quoted, I would have thought it more an insult to her femininity, and clearly unwarranted at that.”
A suitable text for deconstruction by some university Department of Gender Studies?
How to address a film star in French: Chère Cher.
Peter