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

Aydrian Morgan wabbe:

> Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I noticed that when I would say things like "Are you in
college?"
> > when chatting with Aussies (the response would often be "What?").
I
> > quickly picked up that the usual term (at least, among the couple
of
> > Aussies I've chatted with) is "Uni", which I've since adopted for
> > myself, in addition to Chrissy for Christmas.
>
> Yes, 'uni' is a very common abbreviation for 'university'.
>
> On the other hand, 'chrissy' is not a common abbreviation for
Christmas,
> in fact it's downright unfamiliar to me.
In Colombia we call _universidad_ as "la U", and the administrative
head is called _rector_.  A university/college is divided in
_facultades_, and each faculty has a "decano" as head.  Usually "deen"
is translated as _decano_.  Well, my university has two _decanos_ in
each faculty, an academic deen and a student enviroment deen.

Faculties have departments (I guess this is common in most Colombian
universities).  My university had also some other academic units in
each faculty: _programas_ and _institutos_, a program would be any
undergraduate or graduate program and are administratively appart from
departments.  Departments are divided in sections.

In Spanish _profesor_ means just "teacher" and a "proffessor" would be
called _profesor titular_.  In Electronic Engineerign
program/department, people was called by their first name, both
teachers and students, but many students would call their teachers as
_profe_, mainly in the class room or while they ware taking the
assignature.

-- Carlos Th