The only really absurd one is that lawyers have a Juris *Doctor*ate
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Replying to @aaiqbal
A JD is just as legitimate a doctorate as an MD, it's a professional doctorate
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Replying to @arthur_affect @aaiqbal
The fact that lawyers started getting prickly over how it's not customary to put "Dr." on their names is why American attorneys made up the tradition of putting "Esq." after their names (the original meaning of "Esq." has nothing to do with the legal profession)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Isnt a doctorate usually the terminal degree in the field?
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Replying to @aaiqbal
A lot of times, no - it's technically supposed to work like that but in practice it doesn't An MBA is considered the terminal professional degree in the field of business, for instance (PhDs in "business administration" exist but this is considered a separate "academic track")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @aaiqbal
afaik doctorates aren't even necessarily terminal degrees in academic professions, depending on the country-- iirc most European countries have something like a "habilitation" which is sorta like a second thesis, which is required to supervise PhD students
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Replying to @blueberry_phase @aaiqbal
Yeah and we could argue over whether you're really a "doctor" in the sense most regular people mean "doctor" if you earned an MD but you never completed residency and boards and therefore aren't licensed to practice
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Lawyers aren't called "doctor" in the first place but we might argue similarly about putting "Esquire" after your name or introducing yourself as "an attorney" if you got the JD but never passed the bar
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Replying to @arthur_affect @aaiqbal
or if you're only an esquire if you're the eldest son of a landed knight
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Or, William S. Preston Esq.
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I mean yeah it's a joke about how "Esquire" doesn't actually have a defined meaning (we stopped keeping track of who actually was or wasn't a "gentleman" by blood long ago) and the lawyer thing is just made up
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