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You're phrasing is rather ambigous then Isaac Send a noteboard - 07/02/2013 12:26:46 AM
Ph.D.s are becoming ubiquitous, and a great many of them are entirely useless. As a result, calling every jerkoff with a Ph.D. in "Comparative Latin American Studies", for example, "Dr.", would be absurd.


You might want to go with "There are a lot of jackasses with useless Ph.D.s these days" next time.

I also pointed out that we no longer live in the Middle Ages, and the title "doctor" is now meant to distinguish someone in the medical profession. "Professor" is just fine for those with Ph.D.s who are engaged in academics. Those who aren't can be Mr., Mrs., Miss or Ms. like everyone else.


Dr. is a regular prefix for Academic Ph.D.s and a lot of protestant clergy, and both have very legit claims to it both historically and in modern common use, and those are the only two really legit standards for such things. If you're stating an opinion, that we should only call medical doctorates doctor, that's fine, but it is an opinion.
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Proper forms of address (US President) imlad - 05/02/2013 04:22:05 PM 961 Views
Why Madam? Is that used here commonly? A Deathwatch Guard - 05/02/2013 05:33:45 PM 668 Views
Madam would used random thoughts - 06/02/2013 05:48:10 PM 645 Views
Re: Proper forms of address (US President) Gher - 05/02/2013 07:14:03 PM 858 Views
Woodrow Wilson had a Ph.D. and Garfield was a minister Isaac - 05/02/2013 08:20:50 PM 772 Views
Dr. is the appropriate title for an M.D. only. Every other jackass these days has a useless Ph.D. Tom - 06/02/2013 03:55:46 PM 643 Views
i've heard PhD's referred to as "doctor, but not the kind who helps people" moondog - 06/02/2013 05:43:56 PM 652 Views
I think it's excessive Tom - 06/02/2013 06:57:10 PM 615 Views
Re: I think it's excessive Stephen - 08/02/2013 03:41:06 PM 621 Views
Every other doctorate but medicine is useless? Isaac - 06/02/2013 10:20:40 PM 591 Views
I never said that. I said every other jackass had a useless Ph.D. Tom - 06/02/2013 10:59:34 PM 630 Views
You're phrasing is rather ambigous then Isaac - 07/02/2013 12:26:46 AM 605 Views
"Your" and "ambiguous". Tom - 07/02/2013 03:39:01 AM 615 Views
You're being petty and you're avoiding the topic *NM* Isaac - 07/02/2013 05:03:27 AM 360 Views
I don't see how his phrasing is ambiguous. Legolas - 07/02/2013 09:07:45 AM 695 Views
I am disinclined to give him the benefit of the doubt when he's seems to be picking an argument Isaac - 07/02/2013 11:46:02 AM 1104 Views
Ford had a J.D.?! Joel - 08/02/2013 07:10:59 PM 653 Views
When it happens, language will have "progressed" so far... jh - 06/02/2013 06:24:00 AM 651 Views
President trumps other honorifics- for a man, it's always "Mr. President" beetnemesis - 06/02/2013 02:58:27 PM 642 Views
Thank you everyone for the input imlad - 12/02/2013 08:51:05 PM 714 Views
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