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Because your accusing them of being a dolt!

For one thing!

Do you enjoy being called a dumbcluck?
But thats obviously not my main point.


Obviously my point was not that youre critisizing "someone" (just anyone) but that youre giving the appearance of thinking that youre a higher authority than the worlds foremost and most exhalted authority on the subject in question ( you know who Einstein was dont you?).

Lecturing folks on how you know better than einstein about physics might appear arrogant to some.

You excel in humility, and are damned PROUD of it!

Lol!

I just use IMO. The "H" seems unnecessary.

All of you folks who use it to mean "in my honest opinion"- why do you bother using that expression at all (instead of just IMO)?

If you give an opinion- it assumed that its your 'honest"one.
So why bother with the "h"? Its a tautology- like saying "a single bachelor".

It concievably might make sense to use it if: youre trying to warn the reader that "im not going to sugarcoat this-what follows is something that you dont want to hear." But I never see "imho" used that way.

So since you all never use it that way- why use it at all?

But the "humble" version IS often seen when folks launch into treatises about how "I know better than the Pope how to be Catholic", or "I know more than Einstein about physics". So atleast the 'humble' interpretation has some logic.

Last edited by naturalplastic on 24 Dec 2012, 2:31 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Yes I know who Einstein was. Theoretical physics is one of my special interests. There is some doubt over whether Einstein's theories were right or not, because classical physics cannot currently be reconciled with quantum mechanics. His theories only work for classical physics; they do not work for quantum physics. That is why I said you picked a bad example. Many professional physicists and laypeople alike feel that Einstein's theories were incorrect, so disagreeing with Einstein in particular was not a good example to choose.

OK.

IMHO Mick Jagger cant do rocknroll!

IMHO Mikhail Barishonokov couldnt dance!, and neither could Fred Astaire!

Not that those are my actual opinions- but that those would be better examples.

Ya happy now?

Lol!