Re: Engineering Certifications

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:43:09 GMT, Tom MacIntyre
<tom__macintyre@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:28:01 GMT, "AT" <torgny@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Semantics and Title Sickness seams to be all this is about.
>>I'm holding a University degree in teaching but I'm not a teacher. Why
not?
>>Because I'm not teaching. Why am I not calling myself an Adjunct?
Because
>>I'm not holding that Job Position just now that gives me that Job Title.
>>Nowhere in my degree is mentioned the word Teacher and that is the same
for
>>a degree in Engineering. You don't find the word Engineer in the degree.
>
> ???
>
>You find the word Engineer within the word Engineering in the degree.
>
>Tom

No, no Tom.  A person with a doctorate in Mathematics is not a
mathematician since the diploma doesn't have the letters
M-A-T-H-E-M-A-T-I-C-I-A-N on it in that order.  Forget what the term
mathematician means, we don't want to be bothered with reality. 

Likewise, a physicist is not really a physicist, a psychologist a
psychologist, etc. all because those combinations of letters are not
explicitly printed on the diploma.  Don't you see that?!?!?

--Bernie