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Is this normal for Chronicle articles? The article uses 'Mr." when referring to the professor on the hunger strike. http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i26/26a01001.htm |
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« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2007, 12:25:43 PM » |
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I looked over today's news, and the Chronicle does repeatedly use "Mr." and "Ms." to refer to professors.
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« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2007, 12:44:51 PM » |
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In The Chronicles news today. I saw that they did indeed use Mr. and Mrs. as reffering to college proffesors. I would say it is normal for them to do that.
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« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2007, 01:12:23 PM » |
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I looked over today's news, and the Chronicle does repeatedly use "Mr." and "Ms." to refer to professors.
In The Chronicles news today. I saw that they did indeed use Mr. and Mrs. as reffering to college proffesors. I would say it is normal for them to do that.
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« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2007, 01:14:01 PM » |
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I looked over today's news, and the Chronicle does repeatedly use "Mr." and "Ms." to refer to professors.
In The Chronicles news today. I saw that they did indeed use Mr. and Mrs. as reffering to college proffesors. I would say it is normal for them to do that.
I call plagiarism! VP I've already contacted my attorney. |
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« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2007, 02:53:45 PM » |
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I've already contacted my attorney.
Me Too!!!!!! Well, maybe I will wait until such time that I am featured or quoted in the Chronicle. :( |
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« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2007, 08:34:08 PM » |
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If I've told them once I've told them a hundred timesm-- I am Stringfellow St. John Southerlyn, the 16th Duke of Kenosha. GET IT RIGHT!!!!!
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« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2007, 03:17:03 PM » |
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What I object to is the pomposity of using second names as initials. Most people never use their second names, so why this inanity?
Eg. Horatio Q. Hornblower instead of simply Horatio Hornblower.
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« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2007, 03:24:58 PM » |
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What I object to is the pomposity of using second names as initials. Most people never use their second names, so why this inanity?
Eg. Horatio Q. Hornblower instead of simply Horatio Hornblower.
Maybe he doesn't want to be confused with the other horatio hornblowers out there. I have a fairly unusual name, yet i've run into two others with the same first and last names. I have always used my middle initial. it's part of my name. i can use all three names, if you prefer that... |
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« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2007, 03:36:56 PM » |
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What I object to is the pomposity of using second names as initials. Most people never use their second names, so why this inanity?
Eg. Horatio Q. Hornblower instead of simply Horatio Hornblower.
Maybe he doesn't want to be confused with the other horatio hornblowers out there. I have a fairly unusual name, yet i've run into two others with the same first and last names. I have always used my middle initial. it's part of my name. i can use all three names, if you prefer that... Yes, I would prefer that. Besides, second names are often kept hidden for a reason. Funny, in my family, the boys all got second names; the girls didn't. Is that some cultural tradition? |
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« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2007, 04:32:42 PM » |
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There is someone in a very very near field with the exact same first and birth name as mine, who works at an institution that shares enough letters with my institution that it's even more confusing.
For instance, if I am Jane Q. Public at University of Southern California, she is Jane Public Smith at University of South Carolina.
If you google me without the Q., you get her first. If you google her, you get me and her. It's fun.
You want to get even more complicated, you say? Ok. My friends call me Quigley, not Jane. But if you search for Quigley Public, you get a bunch of genealogy listings.
That's why CVs are so important.
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« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2007, 05:22:20 PM » |
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What I object to is the pomposity of using second names as initials. Most people never use their second names, so why this inanity?
Eg. Horatio Q. Hornblower instead of simply Horatio Hornblower.
Maybe he doesn't want to be confused with the other horatio hornblowers out there. I have a fairly unusual name, yet i've run into two others with the same first and last names. I have always used my middle initial. it's part of my name. i can use all three names, if you prefer that... Yes, I would prefer that. Besides, second names are often kept hidden for a reason. Funny, in my family, the boys all got second names; the girls didn't. Is that some cultural tradition? Some folks do that because they assume (???) the girls will all get married and get a third name... How archaic. When I get married I may or may not take The Future Mr. I's name... but I sure won't be dropping any of my three names I was given at birth! case cautiously insensitive |
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« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2007, 03:18:41 PM » |
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There is someone in a very very near field with the exact same first and birth name as mine, who works at an institution that shares enough letters with my institution that it's even more confusing.
There is another Benjamin Myers writing on Spenser, my specialty, and yet another Benjamin Myers who has published on Milton, an area of secondary interest for me. Just the other day, I received my contributor copies from another Benjamin Myers to whom they had been sent by mistake (because he had previously published in the same journal). For this reason, I have decided to use my middle initial, "P." I even considered going to "B.P. Myers," but, while I like the vague association with W.B. Yeats, C.S. Lewis, and T.S. Eliot, I don't want to offer free advertising for British Petroleum. There is also a "Ben Myers" who is apparently one of the world's leading experts on Beer. Despite what my college roomates might say, I am not he, and, as I am at a Baptist institution, I am particularly keen that the distinction be clear. |
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« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2007, 01:28:17 PM » |
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What I object to is the pomposity of using second names as initials. Most people never use their second names, so why this inanity?
Eg. Horatio Q. Hornblower instead of simply Horatio Hornblower.
What is pompous about using one's middle initial? It's shorter than the full last name, and it does distinguish me from my father as well as a number of other professors on Google Scholar. There is no dark "reason" to "hide" my middle name. Confused, chessplayer |
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« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2007, 04:27:09 PM » |
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What I object to is the pomposity of using second names as initials. Most people never use their second names, so why this inanity?
Eg. Horatio Q. Hornblower instead of simply Horatio Hornblower.
What is pompous about using one's middle initial? It's shorter than the full last name, and it does distinguish me from my father as well as a number of other professors on Google Scholar. There is no dark "reason" to "hide" my middle name. Confused, chessplayer Perception is what is important here. It feels pompous to use just the initial. I suggest you use the full name instead. |
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