The Germans have a word for "person who speaks jargon like an expert, but is too dumb to explain the concept in normal words":
Fachidiot
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"Betriebsblind" good one too
Ah yes.
The word for "person who is so busy working on his doodad and doing the same thing over-and-over, that he forgets to touch grass and becomes incapable of seeing the flaws in his own efforts".
👌😂
An example:
Developer: "This is my thingamabober that does this nifty whatchamakalit and I implemented it under ABCXYZ v 2.86alpha using the SuperDuper Library in the pre-release and utilized all of the types and conform to NIPs 13, 163, 9174."
You: "What does it do and why do I need to care about it?"
Developer: "Pardon?"
You: "What is it? Like, what is it good for?"
Developer: "This is my thingamabober that does this nifty whatchamakalit and I implemented it under ABCXYZ v 2.86alpha using the SuperDuper Library in the pre-release and utilized all of the types and conform to NIPs 13, 163, 9174."
You: "Okay. So you don't know what it is, either."
It's a bit like trying to reengineer a description of a meal, based upon a recipe.
Cook: "This is flour, salt, yeast, sesame seeds, eggs, olive oil, cucumbers, vinegar, tomatoes, beef, mustard and a toothpick.
Some parts were baked at 180°C and some were grilled. All parts are sustainably sourced and Class-A organic, with a preference for regional produce."
You: "Umm... So what is it?"
Cook: "Pardon?"
You: "What food is that? Will I want to eat it?"
Cook: "Only people who are as brilliant as I am can understand this."
*Person next to you, whispering.* "It's a hamburger."
You: "Yo, this dude says you made a hamburger."
I can zap you👀
Zap, or it didn't happen. 😉
Lmao…I truly admire ur candor and wit…also plz tell ur husband his place in heaven is reserved🤔
Yeah, he's my startup capital and my PR-reviewer.
is there a word for the opposite? one who buggers up the jargon but can explain the concept in normal words?
that's how i roll 🤣
Yeah, I speak so much normal, that people often don't realize that I can do the jargon.
Deep Normal
top percentile intelligence 🤝
I guess it's like the Fachidiot is speaking in raw code, and the Fachexpert understands the concept so well -- and is so unperturbed by questions -- that he can speak about it as compiled code.... or raw code.
it's something to do with left/right brain integration i think... a person with high intelligence can remap to multiple analogies describing something easily because their memory is highly laterally connected, and this is something that an "idiot savant" - the old word for an autist who is highly skilled at some specific kind of cognition - also cannot do, eg calculate giant numbers in their working memory but not explain how they can do it
btw, the whole concept of "parable" is all about parsing a spiritual concept into a concrete story for people with lower intelligence to understand
Or, just people who aren't from that specialty.
Most people have particular things that they are focused on, and can understand those things at a very deep level.
But there are other topics, that they only understand at a superficial level because they rarely interact with them.
Nobody knows everything about everything.
Yeah, I'm unusually balanced.
Half artist, half autist. 😂
also quite outspoken and proud about it... also like me
that pride is a bit of a stumbling block for sure
Yeah, but I'm a girl, so I'm easy to intimidate with rape threats.
i'm easy to intimidate with threats of social exclusion
Everyone has their Achilles heel.
i've built up a defense of salty disregard and incisive criticism tho
i'm of the opinion these days that not just saying the bleeding obvious is a really big mistake, even if it seems to cost you in the short term
people respect you more in the long term