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**AlistDakisa** · 05-12-2011, 04:09 AM

"A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who work together as peers in the pursuit of knowledge or practice."

I don't think the word "fellow" was insulting... and in the academic sense, an alim is indeed a fellow!

علیکم السلام
OK brother, leave all these plagiaristic jargon aside. How many times you have come across a person referring his father or a respectable person to someone as 'this fellow'? Say I introduce my father to someone as 'this fellow', do you think my father will construed that I am bestowing a great honour on him? Isn't it generally used for a close associate (informal), a peer or just referring to a commom man excepting in pure academic sense when reference is made to ones formally conferred title such as "Fellow of.."? In fact sometimes it is also used for a person of a lower social class like for Dalits in India.

05-12-2011, 04:09 AM	#11
AlistDakisa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 537 Senior Member	"A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who work together as peers in the pursuit of knowledge or practice." I don't think the word "fellow" was insulting... and in the academic sense, an alim is indeed a fellow! علیکم السلام OK brother, leave all these plagiaristic jargon aside. How many times you have come across a person referring his father or a respectable person to someone as 'this fellow'? Say I introduce my father to someone as 'this fellow', do you think my father will construed that I am bestowing a great honour on him? Isn't it generally used for a close associate (informal), a peer or just referring to a commom man excepting in pure academic sense when reference is made to ones formally conferred title such as "Fellow of.."? In fact sometimes it is also used for a person of a lower social class like for Dalits in India.
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