Great answer. It reminds me of when I was about 14 or 15 years old and car stereo systems were the big rage, numerous advertisements were touting their product(s) as being “state-of-the-art!” As a curious lad, I remember walking down a busy street and seeing such a banner ad at an auto audio installation business that was located next door to a new car dealership. In fact, each of the two businesses had the wording on their signs. A salesman or some other such employee was just outside of the audio shop’s door as I passed by, so I asked him, “Excuse me, I keep seeing and hearing about state-of-the-art this and state-of-the-art that. What does it mean, please?”
He looked genuinely and absolutely confused, it was as if he had never heard the expression. To make my point, I indicated the various signs around him that said state-of-the-art, which were advertising the products that his shop was pushing. To tell the truth, he still looked a little dumbfounded, but he said to me that he did not know what the expression meant. I went on my merry way, but it was a little bit incredulous to me that he worked at a place that was using an expression that he didn’t know about.
Of course, as I got a little older, I came to understand that just because something takes place at your workplace doesn’t mean that you yourself know everything about it.
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