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Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Topic Options #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 Top #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 Top #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. Top #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. Top #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? ) Top #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. Top #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!) Top #81540 - 09/23/02 01:03 PM Re: Pulling my own Faldage Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13803 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. Top #81541 - 09/23/02 01:14 PM my three words' worth wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 6785 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. Top #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? Top Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. 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