• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You’re arguing that words don’t mean what many people use them to mean. Most service desk techs that I know have “computer engineer” in their LinkedIn.

    And that’s coming from me, a person with a B.E. in computer engineering. I hate that it is what it is, but it is.

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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