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Fri 24 Mar, 2006 11:28 pm
Ok someone said to me in another thread that they felt I was over simplifying some things. Call me clueless if you will but I must know... Can you do that? I'm confused.
LOL oh boy... so uuuhh... could you be a little more specific?
I oversimplified things once.
I was trying to cross the theories of Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein in an effort to demonstrate that both of these could be more easily understood, if explained in simple terms.
I ended up having sex at the speed of light.
LOL... come on now... I'm trying to be serious here. Ya'll aren't helping!
Oh God... I can't stop laughing now LE... Thanks a lot! I'm going to bed! HARUMPH!
Uh huh, but overcomplexifing is way more common.
Hmmm... interesting... I think I agree.
Re: Can you over simplify things?
Hephzibah,
You can get paid more if you make things look more complicated.
Why didn't anyone tell me this sooner?
Oversimplifying means to analyze something in a way that ignores some of the important factors, as though it were much more simple than it really is.
Brandon's explained that very well - and it applies perfectly to what Swimpy was saying to you, hephzibah.
What Brandon said... example: "you're either with us. or against us"
Verbally we over complicate matters, due to the fact that we speak ten times faster than we type. Therefore in type, we simplify matters to make the same point.
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