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I agree with that arrogant part. I think also though, it does get annoying when people know full well what you are talking about, but then interject with some
by fnid 17y ago
I agree with that arrogant part. I think also though, it does get annoying when people know full well what you are talking about, but then interject with some clarification or correction or disambiguation that really wasn't necessary.
The problem is that sort of interjection ruins the conversation and interrupts the communication of ideas that are bigger than the individual words that comprise them.
- TriinT 17y agoIt also gets annoying when people discuss things and in the end discover they are talking about different things, you know. When a networks guy talks about bandwidth, he might refer to bit rate or channel capacity, but for an RF engineer, bandwidth is measured in Hertz. Interrupting the commnunication of ideas is bad, but communicating imprecise ideas is close to useless.
- a-priori 17y agoSo the onus is on you to make yourself clear in spite of the ambiguity (a simple way would be to mention a unit early in the conversation). Really, the terminology isn't going to change no matter how much noise you make, so it would be worthwhile to save yourself the effort.