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I feel like you might be overthinking this a little ;) it's simply that commonly and (mostly) ironically Mose's commands are seen as the corner-stone of Christi

I feel like you might be overthinking this a little ;) it's simply that commonly and (mostly) ironically Mose's commands are seen as the corner-stone of Christian societies. And since the fact that ein Herr Doctor is always right is such a fundamental law in German society (again, this is obviously a hyperbole and meant ironically) one would've expected it to be included in Mose's list of commands. But since it isn't, ehe only rational reason for it to have been omitted must've been the fact that he didn't have much space left for that 11th command. That's all.

DoreenMichele 6y ago
Oh. That makes sense. Herr Doktor just means Mister Doctor. "The Doctor is always right is the 11th commandment. Moses ran out of space to add that to the stone tablets (where he wrote the first ten)." I think it is worded awkwardly. I also had trouble parsing that.
- chiph 6y ago
  German is also famous for stringing several words together, so you will also see "Herr Doktoringenieur" for someone who has a PhD in engineering. And is even more right than a regular Herr Doctor because he is also an Engineer.
  - yokaze 6y ago
    > Doktoringenieur Never seen it in practical German though. > And is even more right than a regular Herr Doctor because he is also an Engineer. On the contrary. The traditional universities didn't want to accept technical universities as full ones.A full university is supposed to have theology, jurisprudence, philosophy and medicine. Technical universities were more practical oriented and to some degree looked down upon. So they couldn't give "proper" doctor titles. Just "dr.-ing." (note the hyphen), compared to "Dr. Med.", "Dr. Phil."... The Dutch apparently do have a double title for doctors, which are also engineers.
    - coldtea 6y ago
      >Never seen it in practical German though. Well, google does give 180K matches
      - yokaze 6y ago
        "Mountebank" gives me 763k matches, "Chirurgeon" 185k. Never come across them before I looked for uncommon terms for doctors in the English language. I am not saying it is not a word or incorrect, but that I haven't seen it in practical use. Have you observed that?
    - Tijdreiziger 6y ago
      > The Dutch apparently do have a double title for doctors, which are also engineers. I suppose this is technically true, but AFAIK, you'd just use 'dr.', which would imply that you're also 'drs.' or 'ir.' (as you can't be one without also being the other). Of course, these days, communication is more casual and you'd be just as likely not to use your title. When I was in University, all of my Dutch professors signed their emails with just their name (no titles), but one of my professors from Germany would stubbornly sign all his emails as 'dr. ir. nat. habil.' :D

DoreenMichele 6y ago

Oh. That makes sense. Herr Doktor just means Mister Doctor. "The Doctor is always right is the 11th commandment. Moses ran out of space to add that to the stone tablets (where he wrote the first ten)." I think it is worded awkwardly. I also had trouble parsing that.

chiph 6y ago
German is also famous for stringing several words together, so you will also see "Herr Doktoringenieur" for someone who has a PhD in engineering. And is even more right than a regular Herr Doctor because he is also an Engineer.
- yokaze 6y ago
  > Doktoringenieur Never seen it in practical German though. > And is even more right than a regular Herr Doctor because he is also an Engineer. On the contrary. The traditional universities didn't want to accept technical universities as full ones.A full university is supposed to have theology, jurisprudence, philosophy and medicine. Technical universities were more practical oriented and to some degree looked down upon. So they couldn't give "proper" doctor titles. Just "dr.-ing." (note the hyphen), compared to "Dr. Med.", "Dr. Phil."... The Dutch apparently do have a double title for doctors, which are also engineers.
  - coldtea 6y ago
    >Never seen it in practical German though. Well, google does give 180K matches
    - yokaze 6y ago
      "Mountebank" gives me 763k matches, "Chirurgeon" 185k. Never come across them before I looked for uncommon terms for doctors in the English language. I am not saying it is not a word or incorrect, but that I haven't seen it in practical use. Have you observed that?
  - Tijdreiziger 6y ago
    > The Dutch apparently do have a double title for doctors, which are also engineers. I suppose this is technically true, but AFAIK, you'd just use 'dr.', which would imply that you're also 'drs.' or 'ir.' (as you can't be one without also being the other). Of course, these days, communication is more casual and you'd be just as likely not to use your title. When I was in University, all of my Dutch professors signed their emails with just their name (no titles), but one of my professors from Germany would stubbornly sign all his emails as 'dr. ir. nat. habil.' :D