What is the difference between TeXperts and TeXnicians?

Question

Which of the two terms should I use to indicate skilled TeX users in "official" contexts, for example, a TUGBoat article?

Here also TeXies is used, but I think this one is informal.

Ulrich Diez · Accepted Answer

Quote from TeXbook, chapter 1: The Name of the Game

English words like 'technology' stem from a Greek root beginning with
  the letters &tau;&varepsilon;&chi;...; and this same Greek word means
  art as well as technology. Hence the name TEX, which is an
  uppercase form of &tau;&varepsilon;&chi;.
         Insiders pronounce the &chi;
  of TEX as a Greek chi, not as an 'x', so that
  TEX rhymes with the word blecchhh. It’s the 'ch' sound in
  Scottish words like loch or German words like ach; it's a Spanish 'j'
  and a Russian 'kh'. When you say it correctly to your computer, the
  terminal may become slightly moist.

When you write "TeXpert", you might be tempted to pronounce the "X" not as a Greek chi but as an 'x'.

Besides this the term "TeXpert" may indicate that someone is savvy regarding the technology related to TeX. But the term does not indicate that much that there is also an aspect related to arts.

Thus the answer to exercise 1.1 of the TeXbook

After you have mastered the material in this book, what will you be: a
  TeXpert, or a TeXnician?

is:

A TeXnician (underpaid); sometimes also called a TeXacker.

An answer to your question could be:

A TeXnician according to the diction of Donald E. Knuth is somebody who has mastered the material of the TeXbook.

Knuth does associate having mastered the material of the TeXbook with the term "TeXnician".

Knuth does not associate having mastered the material of the TeXbook with the term "TeXpert".

Thus with a "TeXnician" doubts about her/him having mastered the material of the TeXbook are excluded, while with "TeXperts" these doubts are not excluded.

David Carlisle · Answer

The first exercise in the TeXBook is

exercise After you have mastered the material in this book,
what will you be: a TeX pert, or a TeX nician?

answer A TeX nician (underpaid); sometimes also called
a TeX acker.

What is the difference between TeXperts and TeXnicians?

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