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Interesting, and that's a cultural difference that I wasn't aware of. For context, I'm from the US, and very few people insist on titles of any kind. In grad
by MereInterest 6y ago
Interesting, and that's a cultural difference that I wasn't aware of. For context, I'm from the US, and very few people insist on titles of any kind. In grad school, most of the professors went by first names only. That said, some of the professors were German and had horror stories of their professors getting enraged at students having the wrong order of titles in "Herr Professor Doktor Doktor", or forgetting the appropriate number of "Doktor"s for each professor. How much of that is a location-based difference or a generational difference, I couldn't say.
- chrisseaton 6y agoYes you wouldn’t use Dr or Prof in normal speech in person in the UK either - that’d be very dorky.
- ghaff 6y agoNot at a neighbor's barbecue, but in a US academic setting, it would be pretty natural in my experience to address someone as "professor" even if you knew them well enough to also refer to them by their first name. Doctor would not be particularly natural.