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in reply to a message by bacardilimonboy
most people are idiots. Oh, I know that there are many people that will take offense at that, but I stand behind that statement as a general fact of life.
I had a professor in college that couldn't remember my name or refused to or was just an idiot (since the idiot thing applied to the rest of his personality, I'm going with the third option as the most likely reason). It was a design studio of twentysome people that met three full afternoons per week, so he saw me at least twelve hours every week for an entire semester. The most annoying part was that my name is the feminine form of his own name! One day in class, after being called the wrong name for the third time that day, I pointed out that our names were technically the same name and for that reason alone he should remember it. He gave me a confused look. Within ten minutes he called me by the wrong name again. This is the point where I gave up and my friends began calling me by their own names during that studio. If the TA hadn't been in charge of organizing our grades, I probably would have been graded on someone else's projects.
I had a professor in college that couldn't remember my name or refused to or was just an idiot (since the idiot thing applied to the rest of his personality, I'm going with the third option as the most likely reason). It was a design studio of twentysome people that met three full afternoons per week, so he saw me at least twelve hours every week for an entire semester. The most annoying part was that my name is the feminine form of his own name! One day in class, after being called the wrong name for the third time that day, I pointed out that our names were technically the same name and for that reason alone he should remember it. He gave me a confused look. Within ten minutes he called me by the wrong name again. This is the point where I gave up and my friends began calling me by their own names during that studio. If the TA hadn't been in charge of organizing our grades, I probably would have been graded on someone else's projects.
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Small addendum
While still standing firmly behind my "people are idiots" statement, in good conscience I have to add something: some people don't hear sound differences very well. This can be due to a physical impairment (genetic, congenital, caused by an illness, accident or aging, etc., a learning disability or a language barrier.
I had an intern that could not tell that she said words diffently or with different inflection than everyone else because she has an auditory learning disabilty. We only learned about her disability because we asked her why she pronounced certain words with a non-regional accent.
While still standing firmly behind my "people are idiots" statement, in good conscience I have to add something: some people don't hear sound differences very well. This can be due to a physical impairment (genetic, congenital, caused by an illness, accident or aging, etc., a learning disability or a language barrier.
I had an intern that could not tell that she said words diffently or with different inflection than everyone else because she has an auditory learning disabilty. We only learned about her disability because we asked her why she pronounced certain words with a non-regional accent.
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