At your exalted level of play, I imagine people do understand what's happening. 7th grade girls, and their idiot savant table people, completely clueless coaches and other assorted hangers-on usually need to be told specifically, and immediately, what's happening, and who's to blame. [/B]
Main Entry: idiot sa·vant
Pronunciation: 'E-"dyO-sä-'vän, or same as IDIOT and SAVANT for respective sing and pl forms
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural idiots savants /-"dyO-sä-'vän(z) /; or idiot savants /-'vän(z)/
Etymology: French, literally, learned idiot
1 : a person affected with a mental disability (as autism or mental retardation) who exhibits exceptional skill or brilliance in some limited field (as mathematics or music) -- called also savant
2 : a person who is highly knowledgeable about one subject but knows little about anything else
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