[lit-ideas] Re: "You Can Call Me Anything But Late For Dinner"
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 22:20:02 -0500
Ach. How I long for the good old days when you could call me Ray or you could
me Jay, but you doesn't hasta call me Johnson.
Ach! Erin Holder taught me that. I wonder how deep under water she is now.
Come back, Erin! We need you. Since you left the average age here is over 92!
Mike Geary
creaking in my bones.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Paul" <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 8:57 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: "You Can Call Me Anything But Late For Dinner"
>> "Instructor" and "Student" do -- why bother with anything else?
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> 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.
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> When it comes to email, I prefer to address them by name, to reciprocate
> their standard greeting: 'Hi, Bob.'
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> When did 'Hi' come to replace 'Dear' as the salutation of choice? It's
> now as ubiquitous as '[to] reference,' as in 'She references two of
> Whitehead's works.' There are trends and there are trends.
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> Old Oligarch.
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