• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    That’s because they’re lying idiots, not computer engineers. I can call myself a beutiful woman, but that doesn’t make it true, nor would me calling myself a beutiful woman EVER change what “beutiful woman” means to others.

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      11 months ago

      That’s my point. What it means to others is key. There are more “computer engineers” than actual computer engineers. The way language works, and by volume, the phrase is now accepted as overloaded. You can’t cling to the first definition in the dictionary and say the second definition is a lie.

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        11 months ago

        this is definitely not true. Computer Engineering is a relatively common major even

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        11 months ago

        No, that’s not the way language works. No, that’s not how education or degrees or engineering works, either.

        You would have to fundamentally change the meaning of several well established words before “computer engineer” will EVER actually refer to tech support.