She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.

Wash ,'War Stories'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jars - Oct 11, 2010 12:28:06 pm PDT #28968 of 30001

Coursework is not the problem with finishing a Ph.D., it's finding time and money for necessary reasearch and writing.

Over here, you pretty much can't get a PhD place unless you've your three years funding approved by one of the government's research councils.

I don't know about the UK, but the traditional thesis in France is not equivalent to what you have to produce here, i.e., essentially a book that will be published 4-5 years after defense.

Yeah I don't know of any PhD's who've published their theses, unless it's years later and completely rewritten.


§ ita § - Oct 11, 2010 12:37:32 pm PDT #28969 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But the pro-anas didn't invent these things, they lifted those phrases from let's say "regular" dieters who've been using them for years.

Language evolves. Groups co-opt. If you're in marketing and you're not sensitive to that, I contend you're not doing your job well. However, I also believe they intended to shit stir, as evidenced by the web site I linked to.

ita, this may sound familiar to you

Ha. I don't suppose there are any made for the converse, what I'm doing to you.


Vortex - Oct 11, 2010 12:51:50 pm PDT #28970 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

This is definitely not the case in all disciplines.

yes, in law, there are VERY few doctors. There are two advances legal degrees, the LL.M. (Master of Laws) and the SJD (doctorate). Most lawyers have the JD (which is Juris Doctor). Some people at my university call me "doctor", to which I say "oh, you don't have to do that", because I feel like a poser. But, they are trying to tell me that they respect my education, so I don't insist.


§ ita § - Oct 11, 2010 12:52:47 pm PDT #28971 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm guessing that the upshot of this chart is that there are even fewer decent female characters than I'd thought, and Zoe isn't one of them. However, I'm assuming there are very few decent male characters too, because the bar is damned high. This makes the field look less sexist to me, not more. Just makes writing look like crap.


§ ita § - Oct 11, 2010 1:37:33 pm PDT #28972 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Courtney Cox and David Arquette separate.


Jesse - Oct 11, 2010 1:42:41 pm PDT #28973 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Aw, that's too bad.


Burrell - Oct 11, 2010 1:50:05 pm PDT #28974 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Sean, no one has called you an asshole. I can only speak for myself, but you have caused no lingering offense, and I would hate to see you feel wounded over a passing conversation.

I suspect that the continuing discussion about titles has more to do with the way we tend to dissect language and social custom here at b.org. I don't know that we've discussed this one before.


Hil R. - Oct 11, 2010 1:50:49 pm PDT #28975 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Most of my students address me as "Professor" (no last name there, just Professor), even though I'm not actually a professor. I usually don't say anything, mostly because explaining to them that I'm not a professor would take too much time. I introduce myself and sign all my class emails as Dr. LastName, but I think most of them can't figure out how to pronounce my last name, so they just go with Professor. There are a few who've started calling me Dr. LastInitial, and I'm fine with that.


megan walker - Oct 11, 2010 1:52:01 pm PDT #28976 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I thought you had a tenure-track position, Hil. Is that not the case?


Hil R. - Oct 11, 2010 2:00:01 pm PDT #28977 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I thought you had a tenure-track position, Hil. Is that not the case?

Nope, I'm a lecturer.