(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.
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.
no subject
no subject
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. :-)