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atypical
[eiˈtipikəl]
불규칙적인
엉뚱한
내 친구 가운데 하나는 아주 엉뚱한 말이나 행동을 했다.
학교 생활에서 잘못을 저질러 학생과 (옛날에는 훈육부) 에 불려 가면
호랑이 같은 선생이 잘못을 꾸짖고 때로는 '매'를 때릴 때가 있었다
그러면 학생들은 그 기회를 모면하려고
"한 번만 봐주세요"라며 애걸을 한다
그런데 그 친구는 "두 번만 봐주세요,"라고 했다.
그러면서 "이번에 때린 놈은 아주 나쁜데
더 나쁜 놈이 있어서 개를 손봐주어야 하니까요."
He wasn't smart but ATYPICAL..
그는 똑똑하지는 않았지만 엉뚱했다
atypical 을 여러 영어사전에서 그 뜻을 찾아보면
이례적인, 불규칙적인 등으로 뜻을 풀이했는데
내 생각으로는 '엉뚱하다'는 뜻이 더 어울린다
ATYPICAL (adjective): It means "deviating from the norm." Or odd, strange, or not normal.
ATYPICAL does not mean that the behavior is wrong,
but rather it is not what people would expect.
형용사인 atypical 은 정상에서 벗어난다
또는 특이한, 낯선, 정상이 아닌의 뜻이다.
엉뚱하다는 것은 그 행동이 틀렸다는 것이 아니라
사람들이 예측하지 못한다는 것이다.
엉뚱하다는 형용사에 잘 어울리는 사람이
발명왕 Thomas Edison 일 것이다
When Thomas was a young boy,
he showed an inqusitive mind and ATYPICAL behavor
like on eggs to be hatched.
Thomsas 가 어린 소년이었을 때
그는 탐구심이 많았고 달걀 (거위의 알이라는 말도 있고)이
부화되게 하려고 알을 품은 것 같은 엉뚱한 짓을 했다
위에서 atypical 을 엉뚱하다로 번역하고 싶다고 했는데이 글을 쓰면서 '주책스럽다'는 것도 atypical 에 가깝다는 생각이 들었다특히 '투명 인간 취급 받는 NO人' 에게 ~
젊은이들에게는 노인들의 말과 행동이 꼰대짓이라고 생각하는 경향이 있으므로 ~
비록 노인들 주장을 말하는 것만은 아니지만
며칠 전에 읽은 글이 내 눈을 사로잡았다
Embracing uncommon minds and multiple intelligences
평범하지 않은 생각들과 다양한 지능 껴안기
Societies survive and thrive by embracing the unique minds of ATYPICAL people.
사회들은 엉뚱한 사람들의 독특한 생각을 수용하므로
생존하고 번셩한다
(Psychology Today, April 30, 2023)
Even though most of them criticize what I insist,
I would like to be ATYPICAL happily and willingly
비록 그들 대부분이 내가 주장하는 것을 비판해도
나느 기쁘고 기거이 주책스럽기는 바란다
(좋게 말하면 엉뜽하게)
It seems to be ATYPICAL for most senior citizens to insist what they think.
노인들이 자기들이 생각하는 것을 고집하는 것은
주책스러워 보인다
because he is such a talkative fellow.
"Atypical" (adjective): It means "deviating from the norm." Or "odd, strange, or not normal."
"Atypical" does not mean that the behavior is wrong,
but rather it is not what people would expect.
typical Children – Extraordinary Parenting
NEURODIVERSITY
Embracing Uncommon Minds and Multiple Intelligences
Societies survive and thrive by embracing the unique minds of atypical people.
David Krauss Ph.D.
Atypical Children – Extraordinary Parenting
NEURODIVERSITY
Embracing Uncommon Minds and Multiple Intelligences
Societies survive and thrive by embracing the unique minds of atypical people.
High school students who do volunteer work are not atypical.
since that's an atypical response for an infant, you might want to have her hearing tested
Eating meat would be completely atypical for a vegetarian.
This was partly due to Europe 's atypical family patterns.
Pam is allergic to shellfish so it would be atypical for her to eat shrimp.
☆ It is atypical for John to be silent because he is such a talkative fellow.
All of these examples show atypical social behavior.
The sociable behaviour of lions is considered atypical of the cat family.
Far from complaining about the atypical venues, they rather enjoy them.
So, no matter how atypical these subjects would have to be, they all show the same thing.
Although this language sounds hyperbolic , it was by no means atypical of audience responses.
☆
Posted April 30, 2023
Reviewed by Jessica Schrader
KEY POINTS
Synthesizing unique and multiple intelligences may explain how some small bands of early Americans survived and thrived.
Many societies have made room for, embraced, and honored eccentric people.
In doing so, these societies benefited from a pool of talents and insights that helped them adapt to challenges and change.
I am reading A Hunter-Gatherers Guide to the 21st Century. Heying and Weinstein (2021) ask how a handful of our human ancestors with only Stone Age technology, within just a few tens of thousands of years of coming to the Americas, adapted (invented new ways to obtain new foods, invented and made new tools, etc.), and survived and thrived in a wide range of ecological niches (woodlands, grasslands, seashores, deserts, and more) across two continents. Heying & Weinstein’s answer, essentially: people with different abilities and intelligences, talking around a campfire at night, solving problems and making plans, and then putting those plans into action:
prefix meaning "not, without," from Greek a-, an- "not" (the "alpha privative"), from PIE root *ne- "not" (source also of English un-).
In words from Greek, such as abysmal, adamant, amethyst; also partly nativized as a prefix of negation (asexual, amoral, agnostic). The ancient alpha privatum, denoting want or absence.
Greek also had an alpha copulativum, a- or ha-, expressing union or likeness, which is the a- expressing "together" in acolyte, acoustic, Adelphi, etc. It is from PIE root *sem- (1) "one; as one, together with."
c. 1600, "symbolic, emblematic," from Medieval Latin typicalis "symbolic," from Late Latin typicus "of or pertaining to a type," from Greek typikos, from typos "impression" (see type (n.)). Sense of "characteristic" is first recorded 1850. Related: Typically.
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When so many people with distinct talents and insights come together around a campfire to discuss a shared problem, the spark of innovation can spread quickly.
Most of the best ideas that our species has generated, the most important and powerful ideas, have been the result of people who had different but consilient talents and vision, non-overlapping blinds spots, and a political structure that allowed for novelty.
With regards to niches, we are a generalist species that contains individuals who are often specialists. ... It is the connections between us that allow us to transcend our individual limitations.
As our species has evolved, we seem to have escaped a fundamental law of nature: the jack-of-all trades is the master of none. ... somehow, here we are, jacks of nearly every trade imaginable, and simultaneously the masters of nearly every habitat on earth.
Two important points:
Early human groups included people with different kinds of intelligences and abilities.
These early groups benefited from embracing a range of different types of people with different intelligences, thus transcending individual limitations.
I am also reading The Dawn of Everything, Graeber’s and Wengrow’s (2021) rethinking of what anthropological and ethnographic research says about the origins and development of human societies. I am struck by this series of quotes:
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... what really struck him about the "primitive" societies he was most familiar with was their tolerance of eccentricity.
There is every reason to believe that sceptics and non-conformists exist in every human society; what varies is how others react to them.
The impression one gets from the literature is that any (Nuer) settlement of pre-colonial times was likely to be complimented by a minor penumbra of what might be termed extreme individuals ...
... (he) was interested in the intellectual consequences, the kind of speculative systems of thought such out-of-sync characters might create.
... they can and often do serve as a kind of reserve of potential talent and insight that can be called on in the event of a crisis or unprecedented turn of affairs.
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Again, at least two important points:
Every society has "eccentric," “non-conforming," "extreme," or "out-of-sync"—that is, neurodivergent or neuroatypical—members.
When accepted and even embraced, they can help their societies adapt to change and survive and prosper over time.
These 21st-century quotes from Heying and Weinstein and Graeber and Wegrow are, I think, consistent with the thinking of mid-19th-century philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Consider these quotes from Self-Reliance:
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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation ...
... though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn an come to him but through toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature ...
Every new mind is a new classification. If it prove a mind of uncommon activity and power ... it imposes its classification on other men, and lo! a new system.
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Everyone’s unique and unprecedented mind can be a powerful gift to society. Make space for atypical people.
As Cormac McCarthy’s main protagonist in his novel Passenger thinks to himself after sharing a meal (a version of sitting around a campfire) with a (very) atypical friend: “... God’s goodness appear(s) in strange places. Don’t close your eyes.”