[lit-ideas] Re: "You Can Call Me Anything But Late For Dinner"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 22:12:17 EDT
In a message dated 4/6/2009 9:59:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
rpaul@xxxxxxxx writes:
Do you mean that students should address me as 'Instructor,' and that I
should address them as 'Student'? In the latter case maybe there would
need to be subscripts.
When it comes to email, I prefer to address them by name, to reciprocate
their standard greeting: 'Hi, Bob.'
When did 'Hi' come to replace 'Dear' as the salutation of choice?
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>In the latter case maybe there would
>need to be subscripts.
Not necessarily. In our modern, anonymous times, we do not need
'familiarity'. This breeds, rather than leads to, as McCreery notes,
'Heideggerian
contempt'.
Heidegger was quite confused as to the meaning of 'pater familias'.
Anyway, the Instructor is _one_; the Student (qua Student) is _also_ 'one'
(or "The One" if you must). Surely you have to allow for only One Student
enrolling. And the paraphernalia of proper names is abusive.
Borges wrote a short story about that. It's called "Emma Zunz". The final
line, "The story, add or take a proper name or two, is a real one."
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>Hi Bob
I don't think they're using the comma a lot.
I fail to see how "Bob" _diminishes_ "Robert". The /r/ sound is not even
there.
Anyway, yes, Bob's my uncle -- so?
Phil Enns is write [sic] but he is in Indonesia and there's language
attrition (he uses 'than' when he means 'then' -- just joking).
The other day I got an e-mail from Asia -- He or she is doing a research on
Grice. I would _never_ ask about the gender, but I hold that in other
cultures, other trends.
One can get offended by being called "Phil", "Enns", or "Margot" (Harlow),
but one _cannot_ legally take offense by being called "Instructor".
In some institutions (Memphis Metaphysical Ministry), we have a required
format. We use the asterisk. A case in point is Rebeeca Twittleweed.
Twittleweed, Rebecca *
(* This student prefers to remain anonymous -- do not use any name
in referring to her).
Cheers,
JL
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