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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by smattei in french: mécanicien : that is something like 'the one that works with an engine...' in german. Lokomotivführer (yes Führer like in Hitler...): that means 'leader of the engine'. in italian: macchinista (the one that works with an engine, it can also bee the engine of a ship). Sebastiano [/quote] Well it looks like only the US and Canada have a problem. In Australia and most of the English speaking world they are drivers. Here in Indonesia they are known as "masinis", which very possibly means Dutch use a similar term as Sebastiano explained for French and Italian in his post. For the people who are troubled by the use of "engineer" what about army engineers? The ones who build bridges or demoli***hings, not the mechanical and electrical wallahs. Bet there would not be too many degrees in an engineer battalion.
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