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If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm a chemist, so I'd just tell them that I'm an alchemist.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Ooh, good idea. I'm an alprogrammer. Or is it alware algineer?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

ah uh ah

So close, yet so very wrong.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Apothecary might be better.

To be honest you might get away with moving the term chemistry forward a couple of decades

Beginning around 1720, a rigid distinction began to be drawn for the first time between "alchemy" and "chemistry".[104][105] By the 1740s, "alchemy" was now restricted to the realm of gold making, leading to the popular belief that alchemists were charlatans, and the tradition itself nothing more than a fraud.[102][105]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy