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[Peregrinator]

As far as Emeritus goes, goggle "university professor emeritus salary" and see what you get.

Ishmael

Second link on the page:

Professor emeritus and emerita

A full professor who retires in good standing may be referred to as a professor emeritus, or professor emerita for women. This title is also given to retired professors who continue to teach and to be listed; they may also draw a very large percentage of their last salary as pension. The title may also be given to full professors who have left for another institution but are still working full time. The concept has in some places been expanded to include also tenured associate professors, or also non-tenure-track faculty. In some systems and institutions the rank is bestowed on all professors who have retired in good standing, while at others it needs a special act or vote. Depending on local circumstances, professors emeritus may retain office space or other privileges.

The word is typically used as a postpositional adjective ("professor emeritus") but can also be used as a preposition adjective ("emeritus professor"). There is a third, somewhat less common usage, following the full title (e.g.,"professor of medicine, emeritus".) In the United Kingdom, "emeritus professor" is the more common form.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/Peregrinator/ProfEmeritus.jpg

 

[Ishmael]

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you missed the post I quoted above with the links to sources and the definition of "emeritus," as well as Thor's experience. Feel free to post your sources here, instead of a disingenuous exhortation to "look it up yourself." You and I both know that when someone says that it means they're lying or there's some reason the source is questionable.

While we're talking about research, though, there's this:




http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=37990855&postcount=32

Just how long do I have to wait before you admit that the data doesn't exist and that you were either lying or bluffing?

Do your own research Perg., I have nothing to prove to you, or anyone else.

It seems odd to me that the liberals, as a group, embrace, wholesale, the re-definition of words in the language, in that it's 'living' ya know, unless those re-definitions fall outside their threshold of acceptance. Words like 'emeritus' whose re-definition are entrained in the various Univ. personnel manuals written by those that employ and pay said employee's. Which is it to be? Or do we just get to pick and choose?

I prefer the classical myself and I was/am a little dismayed to find out that I was totally misguided in that the definition I came to know and understand did not fit the reality of today's Univ. environment, or at least their employee manuals.

Ishmael

PS. You've been provided ALL of the information you need to verify my factual statements. Are you lazy, pig headed, stupid, all of the aforementioned?

 

[Peregrinator]

Do your own research Perg., I have nothing to prove to you, or anyone else.

It seems odd to me that the liberals, as a group, embrace, wholesale, the re-definition of words in the language, in that it's 'living' ya know, unless those re-definitions fall outside their threshold of acceptance. Words like 'emeritus' whose re-definition are entrained in the various Univ. personnel manuals written by those that employ and pay said employee's. Which is it to be? Or do we just get to pick and choose?

I prefer the classical myself and I was/am a little dismayed to find out that I was totally misguided in that the definition I came to know and understand did not fit the reality of today's Univ. environment, or at least their employee manuals.

Ishmael

PS. You've been provided ALL of the information you need to verify my factual statements. Are you lazy, pig headed, stupid, all of the aforementioned?

I did. It's posted above. Which universities? Did you look at every single employee manual of every single university?


PS. Bullshit. Since you made that claim you have posted no data which refutes anything I said in the thread. Put up or shut up.

 

[Sonny Limatina]

Words like 'emeritus' whose re-definition are entrained in the various Univ. personnel manuals written by those that employ and pay said employee's.

I think you mean entrenched. Possibly contained. Entrained is meaningless in this context.

The possibility remains that you are referring to the emeritus version of the word. That one's different.

 

[mercury14]

Do your own research Perg., I have nothing to prove to you, or anyone else.

Ish shouldn't have to back his points. The fact that he took a moment to type something is plenty of proof.

 

[Peregrinator]

Ish shouldn't have to back his points. The fact that he took a moment to type something is plenty of proof.

For someone who assigns "religious" as an adjective to his adversaries, he sure posts ex cathedra a lot.

 

[Ishmael]

I think you mean entrenched. Possibly contained. Entrained is meaningless in this context.

The possibility remains that you are referring to the emeritus version of the word. That one's different.

Hmmm, emeritus. (look's at quoted post, try's to figure out what the dummy is talking about.)

Really, meaningless? Perhaps, if one ignores the particular cycles of society. The use is accurate in the intended context. After all, if odd=queer=gay=homosexual, then entrained can equal the cycles of society as much as it might refer to, oh say, the synchronization of organisms to light and dark. Ya think?

Ishmael

 

[mercury14]

Hmmm, emeritus. (look's at quoted post, try's to figure out what the dummy is talking about.)

Really, meaningless? Perhaps, if one ignores the particular cycles of society. The use is accurate in the intended context. After all, if odd=queer=gay=homosexual, then entrained can equal the cycles of society as much as it might refer to, oh say, the synchronization of organisms to light and dark. Ya think?

Ishmael

So no proof?

 

[Sonny Limatina]

Holy shit.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

So no proof?

Holy shit.

I haven't seen spinning and deflecting like this since the days of Firespin, the master of the spin.

 

[Peregrinator]

Hmmm, emeritus. (look's at quoted post, try's to figure out what the dummy is talking about.)

Really, meaningless? Perhaps, if one ignores the particular cycles of society. The use is accurate in the intended context. After all, if odd=queer=gay=homosexual, then entrained can equal the cycles of society as much as it might refer to, oh say, the synchronization of organisms to light and dark. Ya think?

Ishmael

What?

 

[Peregrinator]

entrain2
vb (tr)
1. (Chemistry) (of a liquid or gas) to carry along (drops of liquid, bubbles, etc.), as in certain distillations
2. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) to disperse (air bubbles) through concrete in order to increase its resistance to frost
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) Zoology to adjust (an internal rhythm of an organism) so that it synchronizes with an external cycle, such as that of light and dark


http://www.thefreedictionary.com/entrained

 

[Sonny Limatina]

Option 1: "Ah, shit. Yeah, I meant entrenched."
Option 2: "Invoke the cycles of life and find some way to tie it to the real definition of the word I didn't mean to use and never really knew until I just goggled it, and maybe they won't notice that ah shit, yeah, I meant entrenched."

 

[Peregrinator]

Option 1: "Ah, shit. Yeah, I meant entrenched."
Option 2: "Invoke the cycles of life and find some way to tie it to the real definition of the word I didn't mean to use and never really knew until I just goggled it, and maybe they won't notice that ah shit, yeah, I meant entrenched."

What's weird is that he's not usually this transparent.

 

[Ishmael]

entrain2
vb (tr)
1. (Chemistry) (of a liquid or gas) to carry along (drops of liquid, bubbles, etc.), as in certain distillations
2. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) to disperse (air bubbles) through concrete in order to increase its resistance to frost
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) Zoology to adjust (an internal rhythm of an organism) so that it synchronizes with an external cycle, such as that of light and dark


http://www.thefreedictionary.com/entrained

There ya go Perg. #3.

Ishmael

 

[IrezumiKiss]

entrain2
vb (tr)
1. (Chemistry) (of a liquid or gas) to carry along (drops of liquid, bubbles, etc.), as in certain distillations
2. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) to disperse (air bubbles) through concrete in order to increase its resistance to frost
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) Zoology to adjust (an internal rhythm of an organism) so that it synchronizes with an external cycle, such as that of light and dark


http://www.thefreedictionary.com/entrained

ENGLISH TEACHER: Ishmael, stand up and please use the word "entrain" in a sentence.

YOUNG ISHMAEL: Uhhhh...when I was in New York City, I was riding entrain when I didn't have the money for a taxi.

 

[Sonny Limatina]

What's weird is that he's not usually this transparent.

What's weird for me is that you can do me no greater favor than to put me in a room with someone who knows more about something than I do. I'll pick that fucker's brain for hours just trying to borrow some bit of knowledge or understanding I didn't have before.

Ish always seems to pick the wrong room to try to be the smartest one in.

 

[phrodeau]

It seems like Ishmael has chosen Sarah Palin as a role model.

 

[Peregrinator]

It seems odd to me that the liberals, as a group, embrace, wholesale, the re-definition of words in the language, in that it's 'living' ya know, unless those re-definitions fall outside their threshold of acceptance. Words like 'emeritus' whose re-definition are entrained in the various Univ. personnel manuals written by those that employ and pay said employee's. Which is it to be? Or do we just get to pick and choose?


Ishmael

PS. You've been provided ALL of the information you need to verify my factual statements. Are you lazy, pig headed, stupid, all of the aforementioned?

Hmmm, emeritus. (look's at quoted post, try's to figure out what the dummy is talking about.)

Really, meaningless? Perhaps, if one ignores the particular cycles of society. The use is accurate in the intended context. After all, if odd=queer=gay=homosexual, then entrained can equal the cycles of society as much as it might refer to, oh say, the synchronization of organisms to light and dark. Ya think?

Ishmael

entrain2
vb (tr)
1. (Chemistry) (of a liquid or gas) to carry along (drops of liquid, bubbles, etc.), as in certain distillations
2. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) to disperse (air bubbles) through concrete in order to increase its resistance to frost
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) Zoology to adjust (an internal rhythm of an organism) so that it synchronizes with an external cycle, such as that of light and dark


http://www.thefreedictionary.com/entrained

There ya go Perg. #3.

Ishmael

Let's try it out and see what happens.

It seems odd to me that the liberals, as a group, embrace, wholesale, the re-definition of words in the language, in that it's 'living' ya know, unless those re-definitions fall outside their threshold of acceptance. Words like 'emeritus' whose re-definition, itself the internal rhythm of an organism, are adjusted so they synchronize with an external cycle such as light and dark in the various Univ. personnel manuals written by those that employ and pay said employee's. Which is it to be? Or do we just get to pick and choose?

Yeah. Um, I would have chosen a word that made sense. Or just said, "Shit. I meant they're defined in the manuals and the classical definition no longer seems to apply."

 

[Sonny Limatina]

:::Nevermind, Perg got there first.:::

 

[mercury14]

This is just bizarre.

 

[Peregrinator]

What's weird for me is that you can do me no greater favor than to put me in a room with someone who knows more about something than I do. I'll pick that fucker's brain for hours just trying to borrow some bit of knowledge or understanding I didn't have before.

Ish always seems to pick the wrong room to try to be the smartest one in.

I have the same reaction. I love learning from people. Hell, look at my currently running gun thread. It's full of me asking questions, admitting to ignorance.

Ish hates it when I do that; he always suspects me of trying to prove something, when I'm just learning by asking people stuff. He sees the world differently; for him discussions need to be debates, with winners and losers, and he hates to lose as much as Lance Armstrong does.

Have you ever read the book Finite And Infinite Games? It's informed a lot of my social interactions ever since I read it, but nowhere as much as here. I did a thread about it. I'll link you in a second.

 

[Peregrinator]

:::Nevermind, Perg got there first.:::

I liked yours, though:

I'm going to rewrite that using definition number 3:

Words like 'emeritis' whose re-definitions are adjusted to synchronize with an external cycle in the various Univ. personnel manuals written by those that employ and pay said said employee's.

Do I have that correct?

 

[phrodeau]

Holy shit.

What?

This is just bizarre.

Splunge.

 

[mercury14]

*facepalm bump*