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#81533 - 09/23/02 09:03 AM Teachers of Spanish
TheFallibleFiend veteran Registered: 01/23/02 Posts: 1523 Loc: Virginia, USA	Amusing note on another board I read. Woman was relating a college experience to a supervisor and referred to her "Spanish professor" only to be corrected by her supervisor, "... let's say professor who taught Spanish ..." Is "Spanish professor" too ambiguous? k
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#81534 - 09/23/02 09:10 AM Re: Teachers of Spanish
Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U...	When I read "Spanish professor," I immediately thought that this was someone who taught Spanish. I don't think it would be a bottom line requirement to say, "My professor who teaches Spanish..." JMO, WW
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#81535 - 09/23/02 09:11 AM Re: Ambiguous?
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	Not to me. I think the supervisor was pulling a Faldage on her.
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#81536 - 09/23/02 09:11 AM Re: Teachers of Spanish
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	California must have many Hispanic professors, but I doubt that any of them are Spanish.
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#81537 - 09/23/02 11:37 AM Re: Teachers of Spanish
WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N...	Well, my math teacher wasn't a logarithm... (my teacher who teaches math? )
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#81538 - 09/23/02 12:25 PM Re: Teachers of Spanish
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	My math teacher was a polymath.
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#81539 - 09/23/02 12:44 PM Re: Teachers of Spanish
Bean old hand Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 1156	If this was an oral thing (as opposed to written down) there is a difference in how they are said: SPAnish professor - professor who teaches Spanish spanish proFESSor - professor who is Spanish At least when I would say them out loud there is a subtle difference. (The emphasis is somewhat more subtle than the caps I used, but there is no intermediate size!)
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#81540 - 09/23/02 01:03 PM Re: Pulling my own Faldage
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	I'm assuming this was a spoken exchange (or would that be an exchange that was spoken?) and I would say: A) if it was spoken with the main emphasis on Span- it should be taken as meaning the professor who taught the Spanish language. 2) If it were spoken with the emphasis on the -fess- and the rest of the phrase were spoken with a relatively low emphasis then it could be taken as meaning my professor who is Spanish. But Note: If the phrase is to be taken as meaning a professor who was of Spanish nationality, the implications of the phrase "my Spanish professor" smack of some rather unsettling ideas about ownership.
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#81541 - 09/23/02 01:14 PM my three words' worth
wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 3782 Loc: Worcester, MA	All of the above. The usual meaning of Spanish Professor is "Professor of Spanish." The rest is commentary. Wordsworth said "We murder to dissect." I thought at first it was T S Eliot. Or maybe Dylan Thomas. Good thing I checked! Truly we do, sometimes.
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#81542 - 09/24/02 04:48 PM Faldaging
FishonaBike veteran Registered: 10/11/00 Posts: 1346 Loc: Sussex, England	the supervisor was pulling a Faldage on her Shouldn't that be dumping a Faldage on her?
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