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Tasty Onions
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Originally posted by srussell0018
Idiot savant. :p

Nah. I'm thinking of people who aren't necessarily of low ability in other areas, they just dismiss them / don't care about them.
Tasty Onions
quote:
Originally posted by Meat187
Fachidiot.

Maybe also wonk: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wonk

Fachidiot seems exactly right, but I'm pretty sure the word I was looking for is English, not German.

Wonk is pretty good, but not quite it.

I think I'm looking for something that has a connotation somewhere between "wonk" and "philistine."


:wtf:
Silky Johnson
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ideologue

:conf:
Tasty Onions
^ Nah.

Like I said, maybe it doesn't even exist.


:clown:
Silky Johnson
Well you then!! :mad:
geroin
(academic) elitist
malek
Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Desiderata
Ask Lira.
Meat187
Blinkered specialist maybe. But it's more a description than a word.
VAR
cabalist

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cabalist

EddieZilker
Pedant?
Halcyon+On+On
Parochiality?

//http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/parochial
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