Kissaki comments on Tinder to ban web developers who use 'engineer' in their bio

submitted 2 years ago by LinearArray@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I see, TIL. That's different from Germany, where Ingenieur is a protected term.

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[–] _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago

In the railway context an engineer was the person who worked the engine.

In German the word comes from Latin roughly meaning inventor. Presumably the general usage of the word engineer in English has the same etymology.

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