There's some physics forums I lurk and occasionally post in, and every time the discussion goes beyond physics, holy shit are their opinions dumb as fuck. Just getting someone to understand a simple point that anyone could understand with like 2 sentences just feels like wading through mud with them because every time anything seems to challenge one of their preconceived opinions at all (or if they just don't understand it because they're out of touch) they get annoyed, and then they fixate on irrelevant parts of your point until you have to explain that part of your point again and again and again, and then everyone forgets what it was even about. Especially the boomers in there.
Then there's the ones "helping" people, who will basically act like they are doing a MASSIVE courtesy to you by explaining things, so they'll put people through the shredder for misunderstanding something or for phrasing the question in a way that isn't absolutely perfectly 100% crystal clear as if their compiler is giving an error or something.
And it's not just people in forums, like almost all the professors I know are also just complete morons about anything even slightly unrelated to their specialty.
Why are science nerds like that, I fucking hate it. Like holy shit grow up >:(
Okay pet peeve posting but no don't actually.
Assuming we're all in agreement that idiot intellectual is a fitting neologism for this particular phenomenon, the only difference between german and english here is some mediation and whether you put a a space between words.
It's not like this language comes up with brilliant terms constantly, it's just putting two existing words together but without a space.
If I asked anyone to define the term idiot intellectual with no prior knowledgfe, high chance most of them would arrive at some definition similar to the one I put forth. It's just a descriptive term. The only thing that makes it special in german is that we omit the space and thus create a "new" word.
If anything, praise german culture for coming up and spreading the concept that is described allthough don't actually do that either because the word is both used appropiately to describe types such as Jordan Peterson and "those fucking ivory tower libs tryna tell eating meat is bad for the enviroment, forgetting that a single block of tofu requires the entire brazilian rainforest is burned down!!!1!!1!!"
Man I know, I'm the one posting about linguistics! Agglutinative languages are just fun because they have big funny words that would be a phrase or sentence in another language
Listen, I don't care about your "linguinistics" you fucking wop and neither do I care about your "agricultural" language unless we're talking Fendt tractors, aye?
Please do not discuss my Italian heritage in polite company
A lot of German words sound angrier in an English-speaking context also. What sounds like a more vicious insult, spitting out "idiot intellectual" or spitting out "Fachidioten"? You can really lean into the (I had to look this term up) the fricative "ch" with the latter.