In the very old, medieval sense, it's correct, but we don't live in the Middle Ages. "Professor" is a perfectly fine and distinct category.
I think it's somewhat perverse when people with a "doctorate in divinity" take the "doctor" title, because it's really more confessional than academic.
I think it's somewhat perverse when people with a "doctorate in divinity" take the "doctor" title, because it's really more confessional than academic.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Proper forms of address (US President)
- 05/02/2013 04:22:05 PM
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Woodrow Wilson had a Ph.D. and Garfield was a minister
- 05/02/2013 08:20:50 PM
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Dr. is the appropriate title for an M.D. only. Every other jackass these days has a useless Ph.D.
- 06/02/2013 03:55:46 PM
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i've heard PhD's referred to as "doctor, but not the kind who helps people"
- 06/02/2013 05:43:56 PM
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I think it's excessive
- 06/02/2013 06:57:10 PM
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Every other doctorate but medicine is useless?
- 06/02/2013 10:20:40 PM
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I never said that. I said every other jackass had a useless Ph.D.
- 06/02/2013 10:59:34 PM
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You're phrasing is rather ambigous then
- 07/02/2013 12:26:46 AM
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I don't see how his phrasing is ambiguous.
- 07/02/2013 09:07:45 AM
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I am disinclined to give him the benefit of the doubt when he's seems to be picking an argument
- 07/02/2013 11:46:02 AM
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President trumps other honorifics- for a man, it's always "Mr. President"
- 06/02/2013 02:58:27 PM
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