It's nasty to deliberately use communication you know someone won't get.
Agreed, but I really don't think this was intended to be exclusive like that. It's consultant-speak, it's meant to sound formal -- it's just a question of register. Sometimes that sort of formality verges on the pompous, and maybe this was one of those times (or maybe not -- I didn't even blink at it when I read the document in question). And yes, it's a pain if you have to keep flipping to the dictionary because somebody's deliberately overutilising sesquipedalian vocabulary ;) -- though I expect to have to look up technical terms occasionally, and if the thing I'm reading is full of technical terms that I don't understand then it may be that it's just not the best place for me to start with whatever it is I'm trying to read about.
It's just I can't understand getting so resentful over being forced to learn one new word. It's not hard to look a word up in the dictionary. There are a gazillion online dictionaries, and of course this guy could use dictionary.com (and probably did, in the end), or the copy of Chambers we've got on the shelf over here, or, whatever.
Oh, I dunno. I have lots of intellectual insecurities, but surely if you're worried about people trying to look more intelligent than you, being aggressively resistent to learning is the surest way to make sure that they succeed?!
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Date: 2006-04-27 03:54 pm (UTC)Agreed, but I really don't think this was intended to be exclusive like that. It's consultant-speak, it's meant to sound formal -- it's just a question of register. Sometimes that sort of formality verges on the pompous, and maybe this was one of those times (or maybe not -- I didn't even blink at it when I read the document in question). And yes, it's a pain if you have to keep flipping to the dictionary because somebody's deliberately overutilising sesquipedalian vocabulary ;) -- though I expect to have to look up technical terms occasionally, and if the thing I'm reading is full of technical terms that I don't understand then it may be that it's just not the best place for me to start with whatever it is I'm trying to read about.
It's just I can't understand getting so resentful over being forced to learn one new word. It's not hard to look a word up in the dictionary. There are a gazillion online dictionaries, and of course this guy could use dictionary.com (and probably did, in the end), or the copy of Chambers we've got on the shelf over here, or, whatever.
Oh, I dunno. I have lots of intellectual insecurities, but surely if you're worried about people trying to look more intelligent than you, being aggressively resistent to learning is the surest way to make sure that they succeed?!
a consise tooltip
ITYM "concise". ;) (Now, don't go gettin' aggressive on my ass, right?)