Do you know dumb people who pretend they're smart?

[scottmandue]

I am certain if we all pull together as a team we can synergies a win win solution to this problem.

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

Thrift and brevity, man! No need to try to impress people. They will be impressed by your ability to get your point across as concisely as possible.

My innate tendency gravitates toward an erstwhile proclivity, not to mention a current propensity, to percieve in what you proclaim, a modicum of veracity of which the current culture seems sadly bereft, seemingly oblivious to the useful analogy of applying the scientific rule of Ockham's razor to language, rather yielding to the base ease of ineptly wallowing in hopeless obfuscation, ergo the sad and convoluted state wherein such an overtly lenghthy word as "abreviation" is used rather than "shorten".

Regarding kowing dumb people who pretend they're smart, I can only reply that I believe I know myself better than anyone.

I, on top of having attended a plethora of schools prior to high school matriculation, also had many subastute teachers.

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I fine your animosity towards this woman illuminating, perhaps a revolution towards your own inadequacies, per se, a cloak of shame, which I feel is key.

I base my conjecture both a priori and posteriori. Your pedestrian demeanor and plebeian postulates reveal....

Hey, some schmuck had to do it.

Paul, alert the mods. She has hacked your Pelican account. I swear this is her writing. But she just called me on her cell and was in a cab in Atlanta. So maybe someone else hacked your account.

[Rick Lee]

Oh, one of my favorite overdone monologues was John Cleese's apology to Kevin Cline in A Fish Called Wanda when Kevin was hanging him out the window. Except, er, that one was pretty intelligent.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

Paul, alert the mods. She has hacked your Pelican account. I swear this is her writing. But she just called me on her cell and was in a cab in Atlanta. So maybe someone else hacked your account.

I too am in a cab in Atlanta...odd this.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by DARISC

My innate tendency gravitates toward an erstwhile proclivity, not to mention a current propensity, to percieve in what you proclaim, a modicum of veracity of which the current culture seems sadly bereft, seemingly oblivious to the useful analogy of applying the scientific rule of Ockham's razor to language, rather yielding to the base ease of ineptly wallowing in hopeless obfuscation, ergo the sad and convoluted state wherein such an overtly lenghthy word as "abreviation" is used rather than "shorten".
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Plagiarist...thats Cornell Wests handiwork.

You can never underestimate the predictability of stupidity. There are Oh so many predictable people on this Board.

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by tabs

Plagiarist...thats Cornell Wests handiwork.

You can never underestimate the predictability of stupidity. There are Oh so many predictable people on this Board.

I BEG your pardon sir! I claim originality and will swear under oath that that which I hitherto wrote was spontaneous, directly off the pointy top of my head, sir! (sorry if I'm ranting a bit Olbermanesque here)

[holtjv]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

I am certain if we all pull together as a team we can synergies a win win solution to this problem.

Very good. We have a beer fund which is paid into by people using the following corporatese:

1. paradigm shift: $50 (got 2 in one day)
2. win-win: $50
3. synergy: $10
4. utilize (instead of "use"): $5

You get the idea.

The very practical purpose behind our little practice is that customers feel more at ease when you don't speak like an HBS grad. This works for both HBS grads and regular-speaking folk. You are automatically inferior in the eyes of the dumb-smart person and you put the regular person at ease. Either case you win.

Whatever brings home the bacon, I say.

[azasadny]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

There's one on the God thread right now. I was quite surprised to learn Vizzini is French...

Inconceivable!!!

[holtjv]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

...She uses "it's" when "its" is called for...

I feel like putting on a billboard: "IT'S ITS NOT IT'S"

I'll bet I've seen this misused over half the time it's written and it doesn't seem that hard to remember.

Jack

[legion]

A friend in college had a store-bought T-shirt that said: "Your Nauseating". He never "got" what was wrong with it.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by holtjv

Very good. We have a beer fund which is paid into by people using the following corporates:

1. paradigm shift: $50 (got 2 in one day)
2. win-win: $50
3. synergy: $10
4. utilize (instead of "use"): $5

You get the idea.

Crap! Paradigm shift! I knew I was missing at least one smarmy new age corporate speak phrase.

That's what I get for focusing on work and not PPOT!

[Rick Lee]

My dad winces and groans when he hears people misuse "less" and "fewer". It's actually common even in tv commercials. We truly have butchered the King's language.

[Mule]

I once had a contract with a university and left thinking that dumb asses go to work at universities in hopes that people will assume they are smart. There were tons of "closet" dumb asses.

[lm6y]

Rick, I promise not to reply in the OBD2 thread again!

I'm sorry I upset you.................

[Flatbutt1]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

My dad winces and groans when he hears people misuse "less" and "fewer". It's actually common even in tv commercials. We truly have butchered the King's language.

The interchanging of "jealousy" and "envy" always makes me giggle. And whenever I hear a talking head say "wanna" or "gonna" I wince.

[p911dad]

We need a buzz phrase generator to help our less intelligent coworkers: www.presshere.com/buzz.html

[tabs]

Originally Posted by holtjv

You are automatically inferior in the eyes of the dumb-smart person

I didn't know we had that kind of people on this Board? Now who could they be?

[sammyg2]

I work with a few people who watch discovery channel or the science channel and as soon as they see a program about a subject they instantly become an expert.
They only catch a few questionable points from a program that may or may not be accurate and they insist on arguing these points.


Gonna gonna gonna wanna wanna wanna

[dhoward]

Proactive is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.