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Old 17-03-2010, 12:53 PM #5
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Originally Posted by thebeast View Post
Dictionary.com defines “professional” as:

adj.

1.Of, relating to, engaged in, or suitable for a profession: lawyers, doctors, and other professional people.
2.Conforming to the standards of a profession: professional behavior.
3.Engaging in a given activity as a source of livelihood or as a career: a professional writer.
4.Performed by persons receiving pay: professional football.
5.Having or showing great skill; expert: a professional repair job.
n.

1.A person following a profession, especially a learned profession.
2.One who earns a living in a given or implied occupation: hired a professional to decorate the house.
3.A skilled practitioner; an expert.
Yes that relates to A profession that comes with training and education but what has that to do with putting on a faux persona and using and speaking in a strange language that is not you?

being a doctor is a profession but most if not all doctors speak like they do when they are at home. Why does that not apply to a manager at a call center or at a Office supplies company or at manager level in a Supermarket?
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