On Friday, October 14, 2011 at 10:15:31 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes: >... >Something I noticed when I got to Virginia was that you could tell what kind >of college people went to by how they addressed the teaching staff. People who >went to elite colleges called them either "Mr" or "Ms" or by their first >names. People who went to nonelite colleges called them "Doctor" and >"Professor." The confidence thing.
I attended the public University of Texas, and After reading Chomsky for the first time in the 1980s, I started addressing professors differently. Not sure all of them appreciated my newly acquired confidence. Bill _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
