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There, "Dipl.-Ing." (for an engineer with diploma) is also in frequent use.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 01:52:43 PM EST
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Ah yes, good old X, or Prof. Prof. Dr. Dr. Dipl.-Ing. X as he liked to be known, informally, to his close friends...

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:11:46 PM EST
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By the way. In Hungarian, a "Dipl.-Ing." acronym-title is not in use, but the full form is put in CVs, as well as identifications in articles or on cards. But (AFAIK) there is no exact English equivalent, thus in English versions of all aforementioned documents, one can find a wild variety of more or less unlucky translation attempts...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:17:46 PM EST
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You forgot the Dr. h.c. awarded by a grateful academia.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:25:00 PM EST
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