Yes Mols, the Italians just love using their titles.Moliere wrote:Nemo - I was self-deprecatingly referring to me and my British colleagues in the office (most of whom were also graduates) - not to Brits in general!Nemo wrote:Uneducated halfwits - well that's a tad harsh and not entirely true, but there are some in every country, so it's not peculiar to Britain.
I also loved the row between two Italian colleagues, where one said "Anyway, you should call me dottore because I have a degree", to which the other replied "Then you should call me dottore dottore, because I have two degrees!"
Mols
For formal use lawyers should be addressed as 'Avvocato Smith'
And anyone with a degree is immediately 'Dottore' which can be confusing if you are thinking in terms of medicine when it could be a degree in sociology, history, architecture or economics etc!!!!!
How about Geometra for which only a high school graduation is needed in technical construction. (Roughly equivalent to a Draughtsman). I could continue......!