Timeline for How should the session chair introduce presentation titles which are ungrammatical?

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Aug 12, 2017 at 22:55	comment	added	Massimo Ortolano		@JakubKonieczny In my field, too, in a case like that of your example, a chair would thank "James" most of the times.
Aug 12, 2017 at 20:38	comment	added	David Richerby		@JakubKonieczny Maybe my field's unusually informal but "James" seems fine to me. Or turn to the speaker and address them personally: "Thank you!" and start applauding; the audience will follow. (This is tangential to the answer and question, so we should probably take this to chat if you want to discuss it further.)
Aug 12, 2017 at 20:35	comment	added	Jakub Konieczny		I fully agree with the answer. One addition I would make is that it's often not necessary to know anything about the subject to paraphrase the title.
Aug 12, 2017 at 20:32	comment	added	Jakub Konieczny		@DavidRicherby - I strongly disagree. I cannot remember a talk where the audience wasn't asked to "thank the speaker", and it feels to me like the optimal way of putting it. Say the speaker is Dr James Smith who happens to be friends with the chair and most of the audience --- do we then thank "James" or "Dr Smith", or maybe someone else?
Aug 12, 2017 at 11:27	comment	added	David Richerby		Perfect. And, please, at the end of the talk, don't invite the audience to "thank the speaker" because that suggests that you don't even care enough to remember their name.
Aug 12, 2017 at 6:50	history	answered	Wrzlprmft♦	CC BY-SA 3.0