Its very true. My English professor is Captain James T. Kirk.It didn't bother me at the beginning because I just figured he was trying to come up with intelligent sounding words to show off his supposedly extensive vocabulary...
Wrong.
His normal speech pattern is almost a mimic of William Shatner's character!
He continues to tell us things as if he is ordering us around a spaceship, and he constantly reminds us of our "duties," and he always has this implication about him that he is better than all of us put together.
As he has said: "All of your works. Will. Come out. Bloody-with. Red. Ink, form all the. Grammatical Errors on your essays." while never once recognizing his grammatical errors in speech. Now, of course, this really is irrelevant because speech and written works are very different, but just because he is so avid about gramme and punctuation, one might think that he'd practice it in every aspect of the language.
So, how is it having Captain Kirk as a teacher?
Well, it's actually not that bad. He had to put up with me laughing a few times, but I always redirected my amusement towards something on the Internet or other aspect of the class. I've never told him how he speaks. I kinda like having him for a teacher. He is indeed knowledgeable and such; plus he thinks the topics I bring up in class are fun and interesting, but the fact still remains that he talks like Captain Kirk. It almost helps me get up out of bed in the morning knowing that I'll soon be on the set of an old star trek episode.
-Bill
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