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personally i dont particularly care about titles.
i pay attention to them in situations where protocol requires it---i'd likely stick to form if i met the pope for example, rather than say something beginning with "yo ratzinger" and ending with some expletive. it'd be colorful. i would just be thrown out tho. wouldn't even get tv time for it.
it's more apparently a way of using a de facto formal case in english when you're in academicworld. students like titles. i never cared, really. but they did.
i have a ph.d. i suppose that means i could be called doctor. my brother does that, but i think he's making fun. which is fine---if i thought he was serious i'd make him stop.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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