Re: CHAT: R: Re: CHAT: "Mister" (WAS: Re: New Lang: Igassik)

Roger Mills wrote:

>
> I don't think there's that much difference here.  I don't think grade or
> high-school students would DREAM of using first names with an instructor,
so
> likely this is just a carry-over into college, where there is still a
> tendency for students to have (grudging) respect for their teachers, even
> lowly TAs :-).....Probably by senior year, and certainly in graduate
> courses, its all first names, except maybe with very senior faculty.  Even
> so, as I recall at Michigan, Pike's students called him Ken, but William
> Gedney (in Thai linguistics, and possibly even older than Pike) was NEVER
> Bill, but Prof. or Mr.
> So it depends.....
Wow, calling teachers with their own names? Personally there's only one of
my profs I and a friend of mine usually call by noun, but *not* when he's
around! Our teacher of English, anyway, is widely known with the translation
of her surname, Piatti, which becomes Dishes. the fact that she adopted a
book named 'Hot Issues' and that this can be simply butchered into 'Hot
Dishes' doesn't help ; )

Luca

> Rant dept:  Sometimes we carry this firstname stuff too far.  I resent
being
> addressed as Roger by bank tellers, telemarketers and others of that ilk
> with whom I have no other social interaction.  Probably the only facet of
my
> personality that can be called conservative.  End rant.
>