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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 2 1 2 #81533 - 09/23/02 01:03 PM Teachers of Spanish   Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,523 TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend   veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,523 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 #81534 - 09/23/02 01:10 PM Re: Teachers of Spanish   Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 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 #81535 - 09/23/02 01:11 PM Re: Ambiguous?   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Not to me. I think the supervisor was pulling a Faldage on her. #81536 - 09/23/02 01:11 PM Re: Teachers of Spanish   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 California must have many Hispanic professors, but I doubt that any of them are Spanish. #81537 - 09/23/02 03:37 PM Re: Teachers of Spanish   Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Well, my math teacher wasn't a logarithm... (my teacher who teaches math? ) #81538 - 09/23/02 04:25 PM Re: Teachers of Spanish   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 My math teacher was a polymath. #81539 - 09/23/02 04:44 PM Re: Teachers of Spanish   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 Bean old hand Bean   old hand Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 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!) #81540 - 09/23/02 05:03 PM Re: Pulling my own Faldage   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 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. #81541 - 09/23/02 05:14 PM my three words' worth   Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,502 wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,502 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. #81542 - 09/24/02 08:48 PM Faldaging   Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 FishonaBike veteran FishonaBike   veteran Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England the supervisor was pulling a Faldage on her Shouldn't that be dumping a Faldage on her? 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