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

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:22:15 -0400 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
> Steg Belsky wrote:
> > When i began teaching 5th grade in a local school here a few
> blocks from
> > my college, i wondered whether i should have my students call me
> > "Stephen" or "Mr. Belsky".  The question, however, became a moot
> point
> > when my friend Jen who i was replacing as teacher introduced me to
> the
> > class the day before i started (her last day) as "Steve".
> I'm stunned!  I can't even bring myself to calling former high
> school
> teachers with whom I had a good friendship by their first name.  The
> most informal address I can bring myself to is forms like Mr. J.
-

I don't do that either.  I just keep on calling them what they said to
call them when they were my teacher, whether that was firstname,
lastname, or title (ex. "Doc", "Mar", "Señora").  It all seems to depend
on how they started off the beginning of the class, as "hi, i'm _____" or
"hi, i'm [insert title here] ______".

> > eventually get through rabbinical school after i finish college.
> :-) .
>
> You're going to be a rabbi?  Coolness!
-

Eventually, iy"H (=im yirtzeh Hashém, "if God wills").... but i can't see
it happening for *at least* 6, 7 years.

-Stephen (Steg)
 "salaam / `aleinu ve`al kol ha`olam / salaam, salaam..."

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