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"I gave a lecture recently and a student stopped me. “I’m sorry, I don’t know what a coroutine is. Can you explain?” More than happy to. That level of embarrass
by soneca 8y ago
"I gave a lecture recently and a student stopped me. “I’m sorry, I don’t know what a coroutine is. Can you explain?” More than happy to. That level of embarrassment.
If you have a better word, please provide it. But I believe embarrassment is the correct emotion to feel in response to one’s own ignorance."
"Embarrassment", for me, is definitely not the right word.
If I feel embarrassed, I do not ask. I will go quietly google it.
"Bothered" might be a better word?
- protomyth 8y agoI'm only going to feel embarrassment if it was some kind of prerequisite for the lecture, and like you I would probably just look it up afterwords (probably on YouTube). I would admit to ignorance if I have never learned the subject and forgetfulness if I had learned it and forgot or just had a "brain fart" and temporarily forgot which would leave me annoyed at myself. I think this article misuses embarrassed.