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By: jeremy hunsinger

jeremy hunsinger — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

not being one for propriety, but is seb a prof. or a dr. and what are the norms. i though he was a dr. ala ph.d. and not a prof. ala someone in the professorial track at a university. did he move? i may have missed it. sorry, just unsure about these things in general.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Good question, and one Seb would best be able to answer. I am of the opinion that anyone with the doctorate may be properly addressed as Professor. I don’t particularly care for many medical doctors (something about the profession attracts or turns them into jerks in many cases, IMHO), so I tend to avoid the Dr. Not that I am insulted when people address me as such–and in fact, that is far more common than calling me Prof. I don’t know whether the title appropriately goes to those only who teach. Seb’s employed as a researcher, and it strikes me that others at research labs are often Profs…

I can’t say that I dislike the title, though I’m just as happy with Alex–“hey you” also seems to work.

By: jeremy hunsinger

jeremy hunsinger — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

hey you doesn’t often work for me, but it does sometime. i don’t think it matters as much in the u.s./canadian titles, but i think, at least from what i’ve been led to believe matter alot in those institutions where only the head of the department or research group is entitled to professor. and only those people with a doctorate, which in many countries is a degree beyond the ph.d. can be called dr. honorifics are a pain.

By: Seb

Seb — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

First time I’ve been called Prof. I don’t currently teach, so I was surprised. But I do like it better than Dr. (argh)

Still, honorifics are a pain. Call me Seb.

By: jeremy hunsinger

jeremy hunsinger — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

while i don’t like dr. i do sort of like the diminutive form of Doc. like Doc. Holliday, or Doc. Strange, etc. it has a ring to it, but perhaps i am too much of the lone ranger tv show generation, i dunno.

By: Eric Scheid

Eric Scheid — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pity then some countries where the convention is, if you have two doctorates, to be called by both: Herr Dr. Dr. Strange.

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