These are still in use on some circles. When I was young, my parents sent me to a thing called Cotillion. It was a sort of evening camp for young people where we learned table manners, ballroom dancing, and ettiquite. Calling cards were part of the deal. A proper host had a special tray for them near the entrance for people to leave theirs.
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Re: Calling card
#42Interestingly, while in English we now say "business card", it seems that at least Swedish and Finnish, and probably other languages too, retained some form of "visiting card". In Swedish "visitkort" and in Finnish "käyntikortti" (literally, visit card) are still the terms for business card in use today.
In India they still call them visiting cards
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#43This feels almost like SYN/ACK/NACK, but for people. Which means you could DDoS an aristocrat by sending them a lot of visiting cards.
My first thought was that this would be an interesting protocol for calling someone. I often receive more annoying robocalls on my personal phone than welcomed calls from unknown numbers. My usual solution is to quickly google the number to see if any scam reports are available and then quickly answer if not. But I might start the practice of texting ahead of calling someone unfamiliar with a quick message like “This…
> I often receive more annoying robocalls on my personal phone than welcomed calls from unknown numbers. My usual solution is to quickly google the number to see if any scam reports are available and then quickly answer if not.
My strategy is generally just not to answer and let them leave a message if it's an actual person. Unless I have some reason to be expecting the call, I think that most people nowadays would find it reasonable that calling someone who doesn't have your number might result in you having to leave a message. If it is an actual person, I'll very often call them back immediately after listening to the message.
Re: Calling card
#44Interestingly, while in English we now say "business card", it seems that at least Swedish and Finnish, and probably other languages too, retained some form of "visiting card". In Swedish "visitkort" and in Finnish "käyntikortti" (literally, visit card) are still the terms for business card in use today.
"Biglietto da visita" in Italian, it was used also for accompanying a gift, most people used to have two sets, one, a proper "visit card" without anything but the title and the name (and the title was usually striken with a pen to show familiarity) and one more properly a "business card" with the postal address and (once available) phone number.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's odd that in 2017 we are still having this debate. wiki welcomes you to improve the article. In fact that's the whole idea behind the site. It's odd that some users are still missing this use case in its entirety.
> wiki welcomes you Welcomes? Over the years there have been many projects to make Wikipedia more welcoming to newcomers, because WP recognised that the "don't bite the newbies" guidance is nto always followed. I don't know what it's like now. I'd be interested to see the results of surveys of new editors.
It's those who complain about the quality of Wikipedia whom, in the same vein, complain it's hard for newbies to edit it.
I've had edits rejected and I must say Wikipedia's 'assume good faith' policy makes it less hard on the newbie ego.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith
Maybe newbie edits that don't cut the mark is one of the processes that attempt to drive the quality upward.
Re: Calling card
#46Interesting article but it shows the cultural biais of Wikipedia, not a word about Asia where visiting cards might have been even more important to social interactions.
The article you're looking for is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_card It is a more general article on what we now call business cards, and contains a significant amount of information about the use of business cards in Japan and the etiquette involved. OP, on the other hand, is about a specific precursor to the modern business card that only existed in the West.
"only existed in the West." Are you sure? I think I remember these mentionned in the vast Chinese classic litterature. It was the nearly the same usage: an expensive piece of parper with a name on it that was sent back and forth to prepare an irl meeting.