Sat 11 Dec 2010, 23:45 refined Mon 25 Apr 2011, 19:03
I had coined three terms Parrot Humanoids, Parrot Syndrome, and Parrot Humanoid Syndrome. For long I had been using them in my works. Occasionally, I have explained it briefly with my use of this term. Now I think that I must define them formally.
Dictionary
defines
- a parrot as a repeater of something that somebody else has said, without thought or understanding;
- a humanoid as one resembling human;
- and syndrome as a group of things or events that form a recognizable pattern, especially of something undesirable.
Thus, parrot humanoid is one who resembles a human and is a repeater of something that somebody else has said, without thought or understanding.
Similarly, parrot syndrome is a group of events that form a recognizable pattern comprising repetitive use of someone else's saying without thought or understanding.
Deductively, a human who fits the definition of parrot humanoid and demonstrates the parrot syndrome, collectively makes up for parrot humanoid syndrome, essentially something undesirable among humans as they have been given a head over their shoulder not for cosmetic purposes but for applying it before blindly following what so-called people learned said or wrote.
We would want to illustrate this point with a number of real-life examples that will follow in due course.