It is the habit of giving opinions
and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge. We all know
people who have knowledge in one thing or another and attempt to
translate that to things they have little no knowledge about.
The term
ultracrepidarian was first publicly recorded in 1819 by the
essayist William Hazlitt in an open Letter to William Gifford,
the editor of the Quarterly Review, "You have been well called
an Ultra-Crepidarian critic."
It may come from a
famous Greek artist, to a shoemaker who presumed to criticize
his painting. It can be taken to mean that a shoemaker ought not
to judge beyond his own soles. Critics should only comment on
things they know something about. The saying remains popular in
several languages, as in a cobbler should stick to his shoes.
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