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Get off my lawn!
Hat:
God, who cares
Call people by whatever they want to be called by! Most of my lecturers prefer to be called by their first names. Why the fuck wouldn't you do that. One of them likes to be called "Professor _________". Why the fuck wouldn't you do that either? I want to be called Carl Weathers, why the hell won't an admin change my name to Carl Weathers, is what I am trying to get at with this.
It's common fucking courtesy to address a fellow human being the way they would like to be addressed, theres no need to be formal if they don't want it, and there's no need to be informal if they do.
What the fuck are we even arguing about anymore, we sound like a bunch of fucking old people.
(I'm not agreeing with you either, idiolect. You are an insufferable prick! If you asked me to refer to you as Mr _______ I would probably refuse to do so out of sheer spite)
idiolect:
--- Quote from: Hat on 11 Mar 2008, 23:57 ---What the fuck are we even arguing about anymore, we sound like a bunch of fucking old people.
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So the answer to the OP is none whatsoever, then.
E. Spaceman:
--- Quote ---Whoa whoa whoa! Call people by whatever name that they ask you to call them by, not whatever you decide on. Jeez.
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why?
--- Quote ---And if you don't like dealing with certain things like being asked to call people by their last names, you can leave and take your money with you and give it to whatever crazy hippie school is letting you call people by their first names only. Also, you're totally wrong on the "respect" issue too -- other human beings in general but especially your ostensible superiors should start out with some amount of respect from you in whatever way is relevant. From that point forward, they can gain a special amount of respect from you if they do something especially excellent, or they can lose respect if they treat you badly. I always worry about people who seem to think everyone walks around having no respect for each other from the get-go. (Alternately, I don't like it when such people say things like that to me directly, because of the implied demand that I start thinking about how to impress them and gain their respect. Ew).
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I did, there I learned that people are idiots and that questioning is an essential thing if you don't want to be an utter sheep.
As for respect, everyone gets some by default, this is intrinsic to their status as human beings. A sad fact is that most of my ostensible superiors have never been more than ostensible. Politician or McDonalds server, I don't think differently about you because of the position, I won't give you any more respect for it, only through your actions or inactions. On a slightly more lighthearted note, I must say that never have I met someone who demanded respect who was actually deserving. All the people I respect, and there are a lot, are humble about it.
BrittanyMarie:
I'm with Hat. Though there are probably class issues between ideolect's and emilio's differing views on authority figures and respect. Schools in lower-income areas tend to be much more formal, and higher-income schools tend to be much more relaxed.
I also loved drinking more when I was 14 than when I hit 21.
E. Spaceman:
I don't have money to afford things like "university", if that is what you mean.
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