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Post by juju on Jul 1, 2017 19:25:51 GMT
When I was teaching at the University, I was called Professor or Professor Holmes. But I was also fine with students calling me Karla. In most universities here, lecturers are known by their first names and are fine with students calling them that. Most have a doctorate so are officially 'Dr somebody' as a title. 'Professor' is a specific honorary title given to very senior lecturers so there aren't very many of those.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 1, 2017 20:03:40 GMT
When I was teaching at the University, I was called Professor or Professor Holmes. But I was also fine with students calling me Karla. In most universities here, lecturers are known by their first names and are fine with students calling them that. Most have a doctorate so are officially 'Dr somebody' as a title. 'Professor' is a specific honorary title given to very senior lecturers so there aren't very many of those. Here, 'Professor' has specific contractual teaching obligations as versus an 'assistant professor', an 'associate professor', a 'senior researcher', and a 'graduate assistant'. Most students don't tend to make such exacting distinctions.
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Post by JoeP on Jul 1, 2017 20:56:30 GMT
That's it. From now on. No more "Father Karla", it's Professor Holmes.
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Post by Kye on Jul 1, 2017 22:11:26 GMT
No, no. No no no no no.
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Post by JoeP on Jul 1, 2017 22:18:03 GMT
Oh, I think you'll find it's too late, Professor.
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Post by Kye on Jul 1, 2017 22:19:09 GMT
*flings self off cliff*
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Post by JoeP on Jul 1, 2017 22:21:45 GMT
That's not very professorial, now, is it?
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 1, 2017 22:29:28 GMT
Professor Holmes, I presume?
The one who lives secret lives as....Farther Kye?
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Post by Kye on Jul 1, 2017 23:38:09 GMT
My cover is blown. I need a new identity...
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Post by juju on Jul 2, 2017 8:12:54 GMT
My cover is blown. I need a new identity... No, you need a sidekick to fight crime with!
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Post by Kye on Jul 2, 2017 9:50:36 GMT
You up for the job juju?
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Post by Alvamiga on Jul 2, 2017 10:29:50 GMT
My cover is blown. I need a new identity... No, you need a sidekick to fight crime with! To me, Professor Holmes sounds more like a supervillain name than a crime-fighter!
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Post by Kye on Jul 2, 2017 11:10:52 GMT
I'd think the super-villain would be more likely to be Professor Moriarty!
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Post by Elis on Jul 11, 2017 21:19:25 GMT
We addressed teachers with the German version of "Mrs ... or Mr ..., but never Miss because that is not politically correct anymore. And we used the polite version of you. At university, depending on the lecturer, it could be first names, Professor or Doctor, Mr or Mrs, but never without their last names. A few teachers mispronounced my first name, people in southern Germany do that frequently.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 11, 2017 23:29:19 GMT
No, you need a sidekick to fight crime with! To me, Professor Holmes sounds more like a supervillain name than a crime-fighter! No! I'd be wondering whether she was the third cousin, once-removed on her father's side to the famous crime-fighting siblings, Sherlock and Mycroft. And whether she might not have their skills of deduction...
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 11, 2017 23:34:57 GMT
We addressed teachers with the German version of "Mrs ... or Mr ..., but never Miss because that is not politically correct anymore. And we used the polite version of you. At university, depending on the lecturer, it could be first names, Professor or Doctor, Mr or Mrs, but never without their last names. A few teachers mispronounced my first name, people in southern Germany do that frequently. Here, it is 'Mrs.' which carries a 'politically incorrect' label, as well as 'Miss'. We have adopted 'Ms.' as a relationally unreferenced honorific title for women; it can be used by either pair-mated or unpaired members of the gender, just like 'Mr.' allows for males. The correct pronouns are them, they, their.
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Post by Yuki on Jul 12, 2017 5:45:31 GMT
In Morocco, calling a teacher or professor by their first name would be unthinkable, and utterly impolite. The one exception was the American Language Center where I studied many years ago, where most teachers were either American or Moroccans who lived in the US for several years, and they mostly encouraged us to call them by their first name (there was however one Australian teacher I had who we addressed by "Mr + his family name"). In Romania, it seems like the situation is the same, at least in university. We just use "Professor + family name".
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 21, 2018 20:13:03 GMT
The university where I teach has dropped all titles and surnames are only used to distinguish between different Gruesomes, I sometimes get called Fr. but do not usually wear clerical dress on campus in case someone mistakes me for a chaplain and gives me extra work to do.
Just occaisionally one of the other staff will address me as Dr. but it is usually not a serious comment that is following.
It seems to me to be quite strange to be on first names terms with the Vice Chancellor.
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Post by Moose on Nov 21, 2018 21:10:55 GMT
Do you have MANY Gruesomes?
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 21, 2018 23:50:24 GMT
'There is only one Fr. Gruesome ... wo-un fa-aa-ther Gruesome.'
But, yes, it is a surprisingly popular name among traditionalist families in Mordor.
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Post by Mari on Nov 22, 2018 12:04:36 GMT
When I was at University, we still had to refer to teachers as professor/doctor (depending on their title) + surname, but a few of the younger professors asked us to use their first names. I never did. Some of my colleagues will allow our pupils to call them by their first name in the upper levels, but that's really an individual choice. Just Ms. + surname when addressing me, kids! No other option.
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