Spud1200
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You don't realise how unintelligent average joe is until you work at a company that mainly employs average people.
My IQ is only moderately above average, about 125 iirc. A decent amount of people on TF and the internet in general run rings around me smart wise. But in a company of 350 people I can legitimately only think of 1 or 2 people outside IT that are on a similar level of intelligence and I can speak normally to. Everyone else I go into dumb speak mode so they understand me.
My boss is generally really smart, more so than me, especially around math. BUT he says fought when he means to say thought. And he says free instead of three. So I have no respect for him.
Honestly speaking kman I know a lot of people with who I have to change my language towards as well. For me its a part of communicating with people. say for example if I'm talking to my sister I will have to change my language to a method of communication to something she will understand. I'm talking about using sentence structures, words, and overall body language and pauses \ breaks in communication that she can comprehend and understand my overall conversation.
If you talk to the average Joe on the street and I've said this a few times I have no one else to talk to about my biggest interest being PC \ Tech they just dont have a clue. An example of that is the chief of MI6 coming out on the day the IPA came in too law. If you try to explain this to people they cant comprehend or grasp the basics even from what I have seen of; lets say tech all together.
People in my experience want to watch a movie or feature film. Listen to music and dont like windows because it doesn't have the start menu . They are happy to download a torrent with out any protection and are all ways looking to save a quick buck buy selling films they have downloaded but dont understand whats involved in the whole technical side of thing. I know some really stupid people who download films and sell them on but if you mention LInux or just Nix* their gonna end up keeling over and having a stroke.
I actually know some people who still use XP. Can you believe it. Honestly.