[lit-ideas] Say hey, Jorge! [was: Archer Cholmondeley, Tenor]
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:53:55 -0500
PE:
I am not
comfortable with my students calling me by my first name.
When I did the study thing, I was uncomfortable calling my professors by
their first name and never did. I didn't want them thinking they might be
able to call on me for a favor -- like helping them move and such.
I wonder if Speranza remembers when he first signed onto the old Phil-Lit, I
sent him a off-list post with the salutation: "Say hey, Jorge!" He
responded that I should address him as "Jorge-Luis" or "JL" or "Speranza" or
"Jorge-Luis Speranza", but not "Jorge", much less "Say hey, Jorge."
I have complied with his wishes ever since.
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 5:49 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Archer Cholmondeley, Tenor
Geary, Speranza
In a message dated 4/5/2009 11:29:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx writes:
I am not
comfortable with my students calling me by my first name. Being
addressed in this way, I feel an undefined pressure on my relationship
to them, and I find myself silently resisting. I can't change this
tendency, but I don't have to like it.
----
I think you CAN change it.
Geary calls me Speranza. Speranza calls Geary Geary. This avoids our
reference to "my dear master", and other honorifics.
It's best to treat students by _last_ name. My favourite student I call
"Chamlee". His real surname is "Cholmondeley", but he seems to be pleased
by the
consdideration. His first name is "Archer", which _is_ ridiculous
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