English language question: person teaching ?

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  • cjolley
    Super MURCer
    • Aug 1999
    • 7672

    #16
    Originally posted by VJ View Post
    ...
    How do you call the person that is teaching a number of students (at a university level)
    ...
    How you call them is to cup your hands together to make a megaphone and shout their name.

    What you call them is instructor or professor in the US.
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    • Umfriend
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      • Mar 2001
      • 7308

      #17
      Lol
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      • VJ
        Moderator
        • Mar 2001
        • 9733

        #18
        Originally posted by cjolley View Post
        How you call them is to cup your hands together to make a megaphone and shout their name.

        What you call them is instructor or professor in the US.


        Rats, I can't believe I made that mistake...



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        • cjolley
          Super MURCer
          • Aug 1999
          • 7672

          #19
          Originally posted by VJ View Post

          Rats, I can't believe I made that mistake...
          Odd, I cant' believe how good your English is.
          A feeling that extends to a lot of non native English speakers @MURC.
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          • Fat Tone
            Super MURCer
            • Aug 1999
            • 7579

            #20
            Originally posted by cjolley View Post
            A feeling that extends to a lot of non native English speakers @MURC.
            Indeed, and it can't always be said of us native speakers!
            FT.

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            • lowlifecat
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              • Feb 2004
              • 1226

              #21
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              • Wombat
                Super MURCer
                • Aug 2000
                • 9498

                #22
                In America, it's almost always a Professor teaching the course. The one class I had in college where the guy teaching was an expert, but did not have a doctorate, he was the Instructor for the course.

                However, just to have fun with English, he described himself as "teaching" the course, and in American colleges, the graduate students that help out are Teaching Assistants.
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                • NetSnake
                  MURCer
                  • Feb 2001
                  • 531

                  #23
                  Originally posted by Admiral View Post
                  One more for "Lecturer" ("Lector" in Romanian).
                  Lector is more of a University grade (after asistent) in Romania than a general term for a lecturer, isn't it?

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                  • Brian Ellis
                    Super MURCer
                    • Sep 1999
                    • 9623

                    #24
                    A lecturer is not necessarily in the Faculty.
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                    • Fluff
                      Super MURCer
                      • Apr 2002
                      • 1522

                      #25
                      In my Uni each university school boss was called a 'Dean'

                      Yep lecturer, normally.

                      On graduation it was amusing to see them all dressed up like medieval chess pieces.
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                      • az
                        Moderator
                        • Feb 2001
                        • 9336

                        #26
                        But isn't the "family" of all these teaching people called "teachers"? Like there are humans and cats etc., but they're all mammals...
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                        • VJ
                          Moderator
                          • Mar 2001
                          • 9733

                          #27
                          Originally posted by cjolley View Post
                          Odd, I cant' believe how good your English is.
                          A feeling that extends to a lot of non native English speakers @MURC.
                          Thanks...

                          Of course, speaking multiple languages is imperative if your native tongue is spoken only by a handful of people. And as soon as you start working internationally, you must know English.


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                          • Umfriend
                            Crabby Smurf
                            • Mar 2001
                            • 7308

                            #28
                            And besides, speaking foreign langauges also increases the appreciation of our own language: Dutch is by far the most beautiful, precise and concise language in the world (I'll admit, concise is a word I had just looked up a few days ago. It is a very nice word even in English).
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                            • Sasq
                              Administrator
                              • Jan 2001
                              • 4635

                              #29
                              Dutch... Concise... only to the dutch the rest of us just think you need better drugs
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                              • Admiral
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                                • Aug 2000
                                • 3125

                                #30
                                Originally posted by NetSnake View Post
                                Lector is more of a University grade (after asistent) in Romania than a general term for a lecturer, isn't it?
                                Yes, pretty much, in essence they're all professors, but an Assistent doesn't normally teach a course (mostly seminarries); you'll have to be at least a Lecturer/Lector to do that.

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