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Monday, October 3rd, 2005 01:56 pm
(This idea has been running through my brain for some time. I finally said it in a comment in someone else's journal. Reposting, after nitpicky edits, here.)

There should be a specific word meaning "the type and amount of arrogance that leads a person with no formal training and no experience in a particular subject to believe he knows that subject better than someone who has lots of formal training and/or lots of experience in it". 'Cause it's common enough to deserve a name.

Whatever people decide to call it, I hope it's surgically correctable.
Monday, October 3rd, 2005 09:52 pm (UTC)
Wasn't at all. But I'd like to learn that voice. I may as well carry the right armament for the next idjit who picks a fight with me! :)
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 06:32 am (UTC)
I'd like to introduce you to my boss, when next you visit YVR. I'm quite certain he'll qualify for the 'gift' of surgery.

In the meantime, when he claims expert level knowledge of subjects in the future, I'm just going to think "cranio-rectal inversion".

Importantly, when I get in THAT mode, I'll remind myself at that time as well. :-)