Talk:engineer
Translation to Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian is totally wrong. Person qualified or professionally engaged in engineering is by definition Strojar, Inžinjer is just old title simmilar to BEng, and Diplomirani Inžinjer is simmilar to MEng. Inžinjer can be graduated chemist (Inžinjer kemije), Engineering translated to Croatian (Bosnian, Serbian) is Strojarstvo, person who is in that branch is Strojar. Regards --Lasta 08:10, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
- This is a wiki - correct it yourself. SemperBlotto 08:14, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
- No, strojar is specifically "mechanical engineer", inžinjer/inženjer is the correct translation of that general-purpose meaning. The academic degree was named after the profession, not the other way around. --Ivan Štambuk 08:29, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
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Engineering is not just a present participle of engineer, its the name for a wide array of disciplines dealing with precise manufacturing of sophisticated machines. -Inowen (talk) 07:19, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, we have a definition for engineering (the noun) - so why talk here about it. SemperBlotto (talk) 07:39, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
RFD discussion: December 2021–January 2022
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rfd-sense: {{lb|en|Philippines}} A title given to an engineer. seems pretty ridiculous... Br00pVain (talk) 19:46, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
- Delete —Svārtava 10:41, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- Delete is a statement given indicating that you want something deleted. PseudoSkull (talk) 16:13, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
- Does it mean a Philippine engineer has a university degree, and letters after his name? DonnanZ (talk) 16:54, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
- Does it mean that you could be addressed as "Engineer Smith"? If so, how is it any worse than Admiral? Equinox ◑ 03:18, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
- If that's what it means, and I do mean if, shouldn't it be at Engineer then? DAVilla 22:28, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
- While I am not cognisant of any Philippines-specific sense, generally speaking it is debatable how far we should go with these. One could equally have "Nurse Smith", "Driver Smith", "Submariner Smith", and so on and so forth. Mihia (talk) 23:11, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
- If that's what it means, and I do mean if, shouldn't it be at Engineer then? DAVilla 22:28, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
- Yes. The New of "New York" etc. was deleted and these feel similar to me. I would prefer a usage note on such terms saying they can be used as capitalised titles before a name or surname. Equinox ◑ 04:26, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
- Delete as it’s simply the word engineer with no change in sense capitalized when used as a title. — SGconlaw (talk) 05:26, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
- We do presently list some capitalised titles -- such as Doctor, Professor, King. Is there an objective basis on which we should include some but not others I wonder? Mihia (talk) 12:49, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
- @Mihia: I feel all of them should be deleted. — SGconlaw (talk) 14:54, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
- We do presently list some capitalised titles -- such as Doctor, Professor, King. Is there an objective basis on which we should include some but not others I wonder? Mihia (talk) 12:49, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
- Delete. Fytcha (talk) 14:48, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
RFD-deleted. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 16:39, 27 January 2022 (UTC)