@Captain-M said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:
@Ivotas But that's the thing, we can probably assume that the previous order of Warlords had stood for a while before Luffy got Croc kicked and Jinbe took his moral stand. I don't really have anything from the text to base that on, but it would fit with Luffy's portrayal as a disruptor and agent of change. I would guess the old lineup goes at least back to whatever number of years previously Ace turned down an offer. Comparatively, Teach would have been Doflamingo's peer for anywhere from a few months down to a few weeks, depending on your interpretation of the timeline. The pre-war dinner in chapter 524 is likely the only time they even met.
How long Teach and Doflamingo were peers doesn't matter though. It matters that they were especially if Oda makes Doflamingo specifically say "past and present". If the present peers don't matter then just don't mention them at all. It has not to be there if that's not what Doflamingo meant to say.
Also since this is still a visual medium aimed at an audience no matter how brief the time window, them sitting at the dinner table and that Warlord color spread are things that stick with the reader. As a mangaka who has to care about both dialog and symbolism Oda would surely be aware the perception that creates. But those images are just a bonus, what matters is that Teach was a Warlord in the current timeline where Doffy felt the need to include "present" in his statement.
I'm not going to give commentary on the Japanese language, but the context I'm seeing in the actual chapter doesn't really show me a need for that line to be as grandiose as you seem to be implying it should be. It's not being treated as a big moment with a don in the background, it's just one panel of many in the montage of reactions to Luffy and the Impel Down crew's big entrance. It's a sequence of like 20 frames across two pages and change of everyone from fodder Marines to Admirals putting their two cents in with no one bit particularly emphasised. Doflamingo's recognising that his old coworkers have shown up, not dropping a big Warlord lore bomb.
I'm not making the line more grandiose that it is. What I'm saying is that it IS there. And if it means nothing then it doesn't have to be there. If this get's more grandiose than it is, then because APF once again can't handle someone pointing out that a throwaway line Oda wrote might have been a inaccurate. ;)