At my semi Catholic college, the question we always had was-- is it Sister Nun McNunnerson, PhD or Dr. Nun McNunnerson, SSJ. We usually went with the latter in righting, but called them Sister Nun in practice. Except Marian Hocter, who we called Sister Doctor Hocter.
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Also, in German is it not unreasonable to address someone as Herr Docktor Professor Schnitzelring (i.e mister doctor professor - all separate titles, all held by the same guy.)
The solution to the problem, of course, is to get your own PhD. That way, if someone gets snippy with you for not calling them "Doctor", you can get snippy right back.
just call me "your highness"
no.
um. mean!
perhaps over the weekend you can think about how you've acted.
I'm going to a dude ranch in arizona in august to spend time with just about all of my living blood relatives. Do you really think this is the time for me to try and become nicer?
eta: boarding nowish.
Bye all!
I'm going to a dude ranch in arizona in august to spend time with just about all of my living blood relatives. Do you really think this is the time for me to try and become nicer?
I don't know... it depends on the cuteness level of the dudes, now doesn't it?
I meant the Ms. Jane Doe, Ph.D. for the envelope. Inside, I would use "Dr."
Kind of surprised Ms. Manners didn't pick up on the real issue here:
I was introduced to a Dr. Soandso at a party and was embarrassed to have him say, after I had discussed at length an interesting disease in my family, that he didn't know anything about medicine.
It's no "can I kiss your belly" but sheesh. Maybe if you didn't launch into long involved stories with absolutely no prompting from the new acquaintance, you wouldn't get so worked up about having the proper code words to identify which tale you drag out.