Can someone please explain to me how a person who designs and builds bridges and person who opperates a train is the same thing?

@DeWayfarer Well etymology is historical fact. It is a fact the root word of engineer is Ingenium and not onager

@DeWayfarer Etymologist
Profession
/ˌet.ɪˈmɒl.ə.dʒɪst/ a person who studies the origin and history of words: He was known as an etymologist as well as for his poetry. The task of our etymologist is to determine the earliest recorded occurrence of a word.

@adorbz Exactly my point.

I mean it is weird how most engineers don't actually do anything at all with engines. So in a sense it makes more sense to call the train dude an engineer but at the same time the word was already taken.

@MethDozer just wait til we get onto social engineering

@adorbz It's an evil activity by nature but can be fun sometimes.

@NerdyPotato engineers

@MethDozer because there’s different types to engineering

@TurtlePink But they aren't engineering anything. They are operating a train.

@MethDozer you’re right, that is strange. Maybe because a train is more of an engine and so they personalized it by calling the driver an engineer

@AdaXI No. It's two totally different professions and skill sets actually. There is some crossover but also distinct differences.

Sort like how a chemistry and a chemical engineer are two completely different but hmyet similar occupations and skill sets and one doesn't usually make a good other and vice versa.

@MethDozer Well that's fair enough. Like I say I didn't really know but it would of kind of made some sort of sense.
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@PhaqueYou Yes terminology but what is the logic of this nonsense?

@SW-User Oh nice, this actually makes a lot of sense then if true and it does sound like something Americans at the time would pull.

@MethDozer Thanks. I made it up. 😂

@iamonfire696 Not quite. A conductor doesn't drive the train. The Conductor is in charge of the train. It's like the captain on a ship. People think the Captain steers the ship but hw doesn't. The helmsman/coxswain does. Engineer is both a US and Canadian term for the person actually driving it. The conductor is the person in charge of the entire operation though. His job is operation and saftey.