Re: Ignorance vs Arrogance

My response to Ignorance and arrogance. As usual not that well spoken but... hey... it be for the sharing of ideas.

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[azrienoch]

Right. The dance between "big words" and the "dumbed down version" is very important. First of all, that is how new people are introduced into a field. The distinction of the vernacular of fields and the vernacular of everyday language <i>is</i> important; here, "arrogance" could mean the assumption and insistence that everyone is up to speed on a sort of speech.

[Papamaru70]

It can also indicate if a person is ready to join a perticular group and can be seen as a sign that that person is eligible to enter it. Some groups do want to somewhat close its doors to outsiders or the general public so a vernicular evolved with that perticular group. I like your view that "Arrogance" can be used in such fashion.

[gagothesith]

There are enough among the 6B of us who stand between the two extremes--you will never run out of worthy conversation or debate partners.

Relax.

[gagothesith]

4 The objective is neither pretentiousness by using big words nor simplicity for its own sake.

The point of communication is accuracy--whether the thoughts and facts are received with the same meaning and nuance as relayed to begin with.

Perhaps it would help if the eloquent didn't use their gifts as an ego-fluffing commoner-exterminating weapon, ... and the less eloquent didn't see the articulate as domineering ill-intentioned predators.

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[gagothesith]

3 No group not suffering from fragile egos would go to the trouble of creating from scratch a language unintelligible to outsiders.

Teenagers and self-styled social rebels do it for self-flattering reasons, and the intelligence (as in spies, not brains) community does it for functional purposes.

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[gagothesith]

1 "vernacular" and "particular"?

2 It bewilders me why you would "feel threatened" upon running across someone well-spoken. That makes as much sense as someone looking down upon you for no other reason than you do not insist on using highfalutin words when a simple one will do.

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