Hi, Saturday, December 18, 2004, 1:41:06 AM, Graywolf wrote:
> That is correct. People who do are never experts. Experts are people who talk > and write articles. Like me for instance. No. That's an abuse of language, meaning precisely the opposite of the true definition. An expert is a person who is very skilled at doing something, or who knows a lot about a subject. If I have a medical problem I want it looked at by an expert in the subject. Somebody who knows the theory and has the practical experience and expertise to do something effective about it. I don't want it looked at by somebody who sacrifices chickens, carries around a bucketful of leeches, and has never read a medical book in their life. Those people who said ICs couldn't get bigger, and chips couldn't get smaller, were probably not experts (although, of course, true experts do disagree amongst themselves quite often). Those people who built the bigger ICs and smaller chips were experts, in the theory and in the practice of their subject. If you insist that the word 'black' means white, then you no longer have a word to describe black. If you insist that 'expert' means somebody who is all talk with no knowledge, then you no longer have a word to describe somebody who is skilled and knowledgeable about a subject. -- Cheers, Bob
