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> Our insurance demanded licensed engineers. Anyone using that term, professing, to be an engineer better be one. The guy didn't claim he was licensed. All he
by justinpombrio 8y ago
> Our insurance demanded licensed engineers. Anyone using that term, professing, to be an engineer better be one.
The guy didn't claim he was licensed. All he said was "I'm an engineer". All the court said was "He can say he's an engineer".
This doesn't sound very problematic to me. Like, presumably you'd ask where they were licensed, right? You wouldn't just accept anyone who said they were an engineer, and then rely on the state to issue a $500 fine to anyone who dared use the "E" word without being licensed in the US?
- DaiPlusPlus 8y agoWhat should we call the people who stoke fires on steam locomotives then?
- jdeibele 8y agoTraditionally they're called firemen. Steam locomotives aren't commonly used anymore, so I assume you're making a joke about somebody on a train being a "firefighter".
- lsiebert 8y agoI think the term stoker also applies.
- jdeibele 8y agoCould be, although I think of that as a nautical term. For example when they were talking recently about the coal bunker fire on the Titantic, they said that two stokers per every shift were delegated to shovel the bunker that had the burning coal.
- nkurz 8y agoI think instead he's making a joke about locomotive engineers. Which is actually a good point, but marred by couple issues. First, the "engineer" is the person who drives the train, rather than the person feeding the fire. Second, the term is only frequently used in English speaking North America. Further description here: Why are US train drivers called engineers? https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-32758223 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-32758223