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[–] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 51 points 10 months ago (3 children)

When my sister got her doctorate, she told her kids now they can no longer call her mama, now it's dr. mama

[–] goodgame@feddit.uk 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When i got mine, my nephews and nieces concatenated uncle and dr, even years later they refer to me as druncle

[–] klemptor@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

Yeah...that's the reason....

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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Listen, lady—!"

"Doctor!"

"Doctor Lady!!"

– MST3K, Space Mutiny

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had an art history professor that insisted on being called doctor; she said she'd put in a lot of time and spent a lot of money to get that degree, and so she wanted to get her money's worth.

She was a lot of fun.

[–] ftbd@feddit.de 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Isn't professor a higher title though?

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No; adjunct faculty can also rightly be called professor without having achieved a doctorate. I've had a few professors that had BAs and MFAs (esp. since I'm not sure that there are PhD programs for fine arts).

[–] ftbd@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting; I've literally never heard of this (EU)

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Could just be the schools that I've gone to, could be some weird thing that the US does that no one else does (kinda like SI v. metric).

[–] ADTJ@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

It depends what country you're in

[–] pinkyfloyd@pleroma.payfrit.com 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 10 months ago

Dr. Allcome.

[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 3 points 10 months ago

Well, actually the “pronoun” would be “The Doctor”. And since it applies in both contexts, it’s applicable to both. However it’s really not a pronoun as much as it’s A unique Proper-noun/noun/pronoun tri-brid.

Basically, it’s all really confusing, we should all just acknowledge this as a Quantum-noun and move on.

[–] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 10 months ago

It's the right kind of doctor, it checks out!