[austin-cheney]

> For that matter, Doctor was once

In that case what would it take for Software Engineer to become more than aspirational?

[withinboredom]

IIRC, Australia has actual licensing to call yourself a "software engineer." I assume you'd need actual laws passed to regulate the industry.

[sevensor]

Eventually our understanding of the term will evolve to match its use, which is my point with the Doctor anecdote. Don’t try to fight the evolution of language; you may as well stand with Canute by the sea, yelling at the tide. No more did Victorian prescriptivists end the splitting of the infinitive.