Know-it-all

When alls ( mild: Naseweis; rough: smartass ) is colloquially referred to someone who has the habit to specify towards others so that he in some ( or all ) matters more familiar and better able to judge it, or on certain (or at all ) areas of knowledge more knowledge and education has than others.

The environment takes on the behavior of such persons offense - not so much because you envy them the (alleged or actual ) knowledge, but because they teach others uninvited, but the opinions, the arguments and the knowledge of other people close. This creates a semblance of arrogance and lack of tact is formed. Also an exaggerated competitive behavior of people is perceived as unpleasant that discuss less from interest in the subject than for the sake of the keep right.

Use as a term of abuse

The term refers more in the nature of the signified as an act and is therefore a dirty word. The mildest use of this insulting word is to inform the addressee that his communication behavior is perceived as unpleasant. In the worst case, it may also be used to cut off as argumentum ad hominem a well-founded reasoning.

Better knowledge and self-righteousness as a behavioral

Similar to the fanatics, the environment pushes himself on "know " because he seems to hold stubborn and often moralizing to a perceived as a preconceived opinion.

Some wiseacres is conceded to actually know something about their subject. But they would try to win by demonstrating expertise social status as a professional authority. Their statements are thus perceived as an attack on authority structures, which are tacitly accepted by the other parties. Therefore your environment feels the timing and content of the utterances as the social situation inappropriately. Communicative goal of the use of the term alls can thus also be to provide through clandestine reference to existing authority structures thought control, or even to establish taboos.

In some cases, large parts of knowledge are faked. One factual argument, during which they would inevitably show their supposed knowledge and obtain review of those affected then escape as consistently as by rhetorical devices such sophistry and specious arguments, that the fraud over a long period may remain undetected. Often it is the victims themselves are not even aware.

Alls in literature, film and popular culture

A Wise guy is the main character in the 1843 first published by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale master awl.

In Woody Allen's film Midnight in Paris ( 2011) Inez is between the introverted male protagonist Gil and his knowledge of art bragging Blender Paul (Michael Sheen ) torn.

The term is discussed The doctors also in the song Besserwisserboy from the album sound of the band.

Younger word story

"Know " is used as a German loanword in most of the North Germanic languages, such as in Sweden and Norway.

After the turn of the new Länder executives from the west German Länder have been set by many public agencies and businesses. In this context, in the following years was the portmanteau Better Westerner, which also transports the appeal and contents of the know-it.