Saturday, January 24, 2015

How to tell when a naive person is trying to sound intelligent

They'll take a simple idea and try to make it sound complex. As if they haven't noticed how much of a waste of time this is, and how much more there is to gain from making complex ideas simple.

3 comments:

LemmusLemmus said...

(But the latter's also much harder.)

John Althouse Cohen said...

(Of course.)

Richard Lawrence Cohen said...

And the audience that thinks the complex version is more intelligent.

And:

http://www.realsimple.com/