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>An AYLEUR and proud of it.
as you've said time and again. <grin>
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Other than offering a personal, subjective, opinion,
Precisely ...
My response had to do with my understanding of the original question. The original question was,"What is the term for a person who "speaks beyond their scope or knowledge?" One who limits his or comments to expressing an opinion, carefully labelled as such, is never speakling beyond his or her scope or knowledge. I always know what my opinion is, and so am never guilty of speaking beyond my knowledge when offering my opinion, as long as I make it clear that such offerings are no more than my opinion. For me to do otherwise would be to make myself guilty of sciolism, and liable to the derision such rightly incurs. It goes without saying that the preceding is, of course, strictly IMHO.
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An AYLEUR and proud of it. A-HEM, sirrah: you can be Anything You Like Except Unanimous, but you cannot be an...be an...one of those things. There ain't no such. Aroo, I miss shanks.
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An AYLEUR and proud of it
*** Hallelujah! ***
I'll tweedle with you on that one, bruv.
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My response had to do with my understanding of the original question. The original question was,"What is the term for a person who "speaks beyond their scope or knowledge?" One who limits his or comments to expressing an opinion, carefully labelled as such, is never speakling beyond his or her scope or knowledge. I always know what my opinion is, and so am never guilty of speaking beyond my knowledge when offering my opinion, as long as I make it clear that such offerings are no more than my opinion. For me to do otherwise would be to make myself guilty of sciolism, and liable to the derision such rightly incurs. It goes without saying that the preceding is, of course, strictly IMHO.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But are you sure you knew what you were talking about, hmmmm?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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are you sure you knew what you were talking about, hmmmm?Hey, this must be a day without a "y" in it.
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>But are you sure you knew what you were talking about, hmmmm?
I am sure that, in my subjective opinion, I was sure that I knew what my subjective opinion was. I could, of course, have been mistaken.
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"Sciolism" comes from the Late Latin "sciolus," which means "smatterer" (or "one who speaks with spotty or superficial knowledge"). "Sciolus" comes from the diminutive of the Latin "scius," meaning "knowing," which itself comes from the verb "scire," meaning "to know." Of course, if you know something about Latin roots, you know that "scire" is the source of many other English words, including "science," "prescience" ("foreknowledge"), "nescience" ("lack of knowledge"), and "conscience."
...just thought I'd paste the definition of the day of one of those daily vocabulary emails I receive since it was a timely definition--and, besdies, sjm used the word.
And sciolism does seem to fit the bill of what we're talking about here. Now, is the noun form, sciolus, still used today? I could look it up, but I'm going offline and to bed. I'll let somebody else answer the question...
Beat regards, WordWeary
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>is the noun form, sciolus, still used today?
no, it's marked obsolete, with the latest citation from 1658. but as mentioned above, sciolist is a fine noun.
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