[Notary Sojac]

My personal biggest peeve is "steep learning curve" used to mean its exact opposite.

Don't get it? Plot an x-y graph with time on the horizontal axis and skills acquired on the vertical axis. Now, what does an hard-to master skill look like?

[fr_freak]

Don't get it? Plot an x-y graph with time on the horizontal axis and skills acquired on the vertical axis. Now, what does an hard-to master skill look like?

Not to defend this too much, because I know that 99% of the people who use this phrase couldn't graph a function if their lives depended on it (oops, is that an overused phrase?), but I think the phrase originated with the idea that a person has a lot to learn and is allotted a short amount of time to learn it. If you graph that, it is a steep curve.