Talk:Master

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This is rather an odd page. It looks like it can't decide whether to be an disambig. page or a collection of stubs. Quill 03:19, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

If it is to continue in this form I think the Master#Maritime_usage section should be expanded into separate sections for the usage of master of a merchant vessel, sailing master, master and commander, and master commandant. Master Commandant is what the early US Navy called a Master and Commander. Geo Swan 19:03, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

You're right. It probably should become a disambiguation page and some of the definitions hived off to separate pages. -- Necrothesp 19:58, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

And what do you call a smallholder? Another master perhaps?

[edit] Master Obsolete?

This page is horrendous. Master meant "teacher" which is why in Spanish, a teacher is called a maestra or maestro depending on the sex. The latin root shows you why the term is used with a composer. The term is not used exclusively for men, either, as demonstrated by the previous example. In the Bible, Jesus Christ was called master by his disciples. It did not mean they were his slaves, but rather he was their "teacher." Today the Jews use the word Rabbi, although there are etymological differences. The only thing that you are a master of is a masturbator.

More recently is was used as a title for boys and unmarried men, but it is now almost entirely obselete.

Is this really true? All the mail I recieved as a boy was addressed to Master ..... , and I'm only 19.

[edit] categories

I added the cleanup tag b/c it needs to be split into categories. Gflores Talk 05:42, 8 March 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Masters

I'ld quite like to take Masters as a surname away to a separate hndisambig page. Richard Pinch 08:09, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

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