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	Word needed
	At artwnk today I was enjoying criticising the content and intended audience for Bollywood Dreams I wanted to describe it as the type of book suitable for a middle class audience who thought they know more about the topic and photography than they actually did. Bit I didn't have the words. There's a word for a type of person who has a trivial understanding of something but thinks they know more about that and other things. I'm sure there is. But I can't remember it. Maybe it was those poppers in 1997... Help! Tags:* artwnk, photo

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	From: spiked_n_bloody	Date: October 14th, 2006 09:35 pm (UTC)		(Link)

The word I use is 'Manager'
Lee suggested 'Gobshyte'

It's gonna bug me now til I remember the word.

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	From: furzepig	Date: October 14th, 2006 10:43 pm (UTC)		(Link)

The closest I can come isn't just one word: 'know-it-all'. I think I've had a similar delve for this word myself and not come up with one. You could probably apply 'arrogant', 'supercilious' and 'pretentious' but I don't think they'd provide the right meaning.

There's probably a better one; my vocab's sadly lacking.

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	From: gaius_octavian	Date: October 14th, 2006 11:53 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Nathan Barley :-P

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From: ikkleblacktruck	Date: October 15th, 2006 07:38 am (UTC)		(Link)

Human.

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	From: marcushill	Date: October 15th, 2006 10:02 am (UTC)		(Link)

Teacher.

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	From: agentinfinity	Date: October 15th, 2006 01:12 pm (UTC)		(Link)

That sounds closer than anything I could come up with and is a cool word.

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	From: kneeshooter	Date: October 15th, 2006 02:33 pm (UTC)		(Link)

That was my first thought - but I think there's another word that's not so "neutral" and is more "negative".

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	From: agentinfinity	Date: October 15th, 2006 01:09 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Damn it, you've started me on an obsessive word hunt. Maybe:

didactic, overweening, conceited

hmmm?

None of them mean pricelessly what you wanted though, more overconfident and preachy. Curses, this is going to bug me all day.

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	From: half_orc	Date: October 15th, 2006 07:03 pm (UTC)		(Link)

My first thought was ignoramus but that's not really what you meant.

Bullshitter? Go on hit me in the stomach.

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	From: harrytc	Date: October 15th, 2006 11:16 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Would 'pretentious' do?

Superficial?

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	From: sixtine	Date: October 16th, 2006 09:07 am (UTC)		(Link)

blaggart?

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	From: barrettyman	Date: October 16th, 2006 11:31 am (UTC)		(Link)

psuedo-intellectual? bluffer? fraud?

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	From: barrettyman	Date: October 16th, 2006 06:30 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	directors cut

Just watched a short interview with the photographer on google video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7195809308359880788

it is possibly a little corny but it doesn't look terrible

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