They need to come up with a ceremony, or rite of passage, or even just decide on an age, for when you're allowed to call adults by their first names. I still feel weird doing that sometimes.
Graduate students ordinarily call their professors by their first names. A couple weeks ago I had a conversation with a UT linguistics grad student, where I referred to Prof. Stephen Wechsler as "(Prof.) Wechsler" and he referred to him as "Steve". A grad student I know here once mentioned how strange it was when he came into the grad program, having done undergrad here, and suddenly the professors were treating him as a peer and they were on a first-name basis.
But I definitely agree that there should be a ritual. Germans have a ritual for it, and even a verb ("[sich] duzen") that means "to address informally" or "to be on informal terms with".
Well, more specifically that ritual also has to do with the use of informal "du" vs. formal "Sie" as your pronoun of address, but it's inclusive of using first names.
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But I definitely agree that there should be a ritual. Germans have a ritual for it, and even a verb ("[sich] duzen") that means "to address informally" or "to be on informal terms with".
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