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Originally Posted by ferrets_bueller

Each profession has its own Esperanto; a language known only to the initiated. Having that common ground I think allows for a rapport.

Doctors? Engineers? Come on. Dull. Teachers can be hilarious.

The only people I enjoy drinking with as much as lawyers are soldiers. In my neck of the woods, within shouting distance of the Pentagon, many are my neighbors. About every third or fourth house near me has a soldier, sailor, airman, or vet. Most have views which are, to put it mildly, rather different from mine. But I can speak their particular Esperanto as a result of putting in two years as a draftee.

It's kind of funny that you put soldiers in one category and engineers in another. Since West Point is basically an engineering school with live ammo, I'm not quite sure how to distinguish the two much of the time.

I love hanging out with folks in academic medicine and with engineers. Both are problem solvers.

I think soldiers are overrated as drinking companions, but journalists have lived up to expectation.