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Originally Posted by Poppaea
Not liking it is a matter of taste. Not getting it is a matter of not being well-read.
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+1 to that.
As I said before it's a matter of knowing common cultural symbols and advanced terminology.
I remember fellow kids complaints from school about my usage of such during presentations. Only answer to that was: " I see no reason to use a whole sentence where one word is sufficient because you are a moron."
If someon 'd ask me how my room looks like I could answer: "Like Augean stables filled with remains of an androids dreams." and just look who gets it.
btw. it's simiolar with cineasts: a friend of mine told following story:
Movie theater; "Inependence Day" - the scene where Levinson opens his notebook and you hear "Hello Dave" accompanied by an red laser-eye login screen. My friend his two pals and 3 other ppl spread somwhere in there start laughing like maniacs.
the rest turns heads looking at them as if they were from mars - they simply didn' get the reference