This quote from the article really stands out and may become my 'go-to' analogy for explaining being a software engineer: If you know a programming language,

This quote from the article really stands out and may become my 'go-to' analogy for explaining being a software engineer: If you know a programming language, then are you an engineer? No. Knowing a language does not make you an engineer. The same as knowing how to speak elementary Spanish does not automatically make you a good Spanish teacher.