Strep Throat and Carts...Our Health!

[gamblor]

Jelli, I hope you know I love you and most of what you post here, but what you are calling jargon is simply the correct terminology.

Personally, as an anonymous internet poster once said, I think it's sad that we live in a culture where education is equated with elitism, and ignorance signifies authenticity.

Or as Phil Plait says, "If I sound angry, then, yeah, I am. I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact"

Please understand, I am not calling you or your comments ignorant, i'm just talking about the anti-intellectual overtone in what you said. Using correct terminology isn't meant to obscure the meaning, but to make it more precise. And I don't see dumbing down one's language to fit the lowest education level in the audience as a positive thing.

Agreed on the rampant anti-intellectualism...But, worse than the anti-intellectual is the pseudo-intellectual, because he/she is, a lot of times, the original cause of someone becoming anti-intellectual. (which is sad) But, it's not anti-intellectual to complain about overtly grandiloquent posts. (I am not speaking in regard to this thread, but others.)

 

[CES]

Oh! I really want to see Idiocracy right now.... Reminds me to read

OT...one reading suggestion is "The Marching ......" by Cyril M. Kornbluth. Same theme as idiocracy, but written in 1951. "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut is also along the similar lines and a great story

 

[gamblor]

Harrison Bergeron is awesome

 

[MeMa]

Oh no! I hope you feel better soon!! Strep is horrible!