• AreaSIX @lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    “An nuclear engineer”? That’s suspicious grammar for a nuclear engineer.

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      2 days ago

      I was a peer writing tutor at a top engineering school. I would be surprised if an engineer had verb-noun agreement. (That said, my kid was a nuclear engineer and is a great writer, so that is the danger of stereotypes…)