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From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: the programmer title
Message-ID: <1335@ihuxn.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 12:42:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 12:42:41 1986
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> > I myself have a business card that says ``Principal Software Engineer.''
> >     				      ^^^^^^^^^
> >					John Nagle
> 
> Is that "princiPLE" as in "chief" or "head" Software Engineer?
> 
> ... or "princiPAL", as in the head of a school, (say, COMPUTER
> TRAINING INSTITUTE)?? 	:-)	:-)	:-)	:-)
> 
> 							noemi

"Principle" is not an adjective.  The card is correct as stated.
Don't condemn a person's grammar if you yourself are illiterate.
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