Doctor who?
Dr. Whom
Dr Them
But then they don’t use PhD’s preferred pronouns to refer to PhD in the tweet 😔
A PhD is something that you pour a lot of time in so you can tell most people “nah, just the_third, that’s fine” and a few select people “That’s Dr. the_third to you.”
It’s the right kind of doctor, it checks out!
I had an art history professor that insisted on being called doctor; she said she’d put in a lot of time and spent a lot of money to get that degree, and so she wanted to get her money’s worth.
She was a lot of fun.
Isn’t professor a higher title though?
No; adjunct faculty can also rightly be called professor without having achieved a doctorate. I’ve had a few professors that had BAs and MFAs (esp. since I’m not sure that there are PhD programs for fine arts).
Interesting; I’ve literally never heard of this (EU)
It depends what country you’re in
I bet she was.
I’ve never meet someone who insisted on being called doctor that was anything except fun and reasonable to work with.
They love it when you let them know you also have a PhD…
I was being serious. She made art history–which is normally a fairly dry subject, particularly when you’re covering art before 1100CE–a really fun and engaging subject.
the NB Dr. Who iteration is kind of weird.
“Listen, lady—!”
“Doctor!”
“Doctor Lady!!”
– MST3K
@fossilesque HENRY ROLLINS NEVER NEEDED PRONOUNS
Dr. Allcome.
When my sister got her doctorate, she told her kids now they can no longer call her mama, now it’s dr. mama
@pastel_de_airfryer @fossilesque HENRY ROLLINS WANTS TO TALK TO YOUR SISTER
When i got mine, my nephews and nieces concatenated uncle and dr, even years later they refer to me as druncle
Yeah…that’s the reason…
@pastel_de_airfryer @fossilesque WOULD HENRY ROLLINS AGREE??
DON’T MAKE ME TALK TO AXL ROSE
Well, actually the “pronoun” would be “The Doctor”. And since it applies in both contexts, it’s applicable to both. However it’s really not a pronoun as much as it’s A unique Proper-noun/noun/pronoun tri-brid.
Basically, it’s all really confusing, we should all just acknowledge this as a Quantum-noun and move on.