Ultracrepidarianism

Thyagarajan · Feb 22, 2021

HariLakhera said: ↑

Looks you are multilingual Sir!
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Thanks Sir. It is a little bit extra from every language that heard from office staff who are easily multilingual.
One thing I noticed is a Tamilian or Malayalee employed in urban Mumbai or Maharashtra easily picks up local languages wherever he is employed.

Also being a cosmopolitan city, then Mumbai could employ many outsiders from other states like Bihar, Andhra, gujrath, parsis, Muslims, Jains, Hindus and so on and so forth. Smattering yet enough of working knowledge in many languages was a norm with colleagues during my tenure there.

Thanks and Regards.

HariLakhera · Feb 24, 2021

Viswamitra said: ↑

Dear Hari Sir,

Thank you for writing this snippet. What you say is true in the religious and spiritual fields as well. They could completely misdirect people seeking advice. Any suggestion to blindly follow the spiritual or religious leader is a fallacy as inquiry is the best path to discriminate right from wrong.

"I don't know" is the best sentence for people who are willing to learn more and there is no age limit. Sometimes, age prohibits people from admitting that they don't know something. I was CFO of a premier R & D organization in India when I was 34 and most engineers who worked for this R & D organization were fresh out of college. They learned in the job about how to build hardware and software for parallel computing applications and they shared so much with all of us. Our curiosity made us read and discuss so much with these young brilliant minds. As long as one is willing to listen irrespective of age, many doors are open to learning more and more as learning is a life-long exercise.

The word is complex and practicing it can cause considerable havoc and create a learning disability.
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Dear Shri Viswa,
Unfortunately we find more such people in religious field. Only a few like Buddha could say 'find for yourself' .
In general some people are in the habit of expressing their opinion on any subject under the sky. Watching the TV debates proves that. I find the very spokespersons lecturing on number of subjects.Google Baba has made it more easy. You can see them looking at their phone screens. Sometimes they say what they cannot figure out themselves. All for two minutes fame.
Then there are people 'know all' everywhere and get offended if challenged.
The best are paid advisors. They have the right to say 'I do not know'. One lawyer, when pressed did give an advice to a fellow and followed that with a bill also.

HariLakhera · Feb 24, 2021

HariLakhera said: ↑

Dear Shri Viswa,
Unfortunately we find more such people in religious field. Only a few like Buddha could say 'find for yourself' .
In general some people are in the habit of expressing their opinion on any subject under the sky. Watching the TV debates proves that. I find the very spokespersons lecturing on number of subjects.Google Baba has made it more easy. You can see them looking at their phone screens. Sometimes they say what they cannot figure out themselves. All for two minutes fame.
Then there are people 'know all' everywhere and get offended if challenged.
The best are paid advisors. They have the right to say 'I do not know'. One lawyer, when pressed did give an advice to a fellow and followed that with a bill also.
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I can understand. I also had the chance of working in many states and in the process could pick up some words here and there.
My humorous experience was in Madras 0f 1963. I and a fellow Bengali passenger reached Madras Central by train from Delhi. We asked a Coolie to take us to taxi stand and asked the charges in Hindi. He said something and we said do rupiye. We knew he may not understand Hindi so said two rupees. He picked up and at the taxi stand when we paid him two rupees he said paanch rupiye do jo bola tha. We paid. During my long stay I picked many Tamil words of daily use.