"savant" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to describe a person who is considered an expert in a particular field. Example: He is a computer savant, able to solve complex programming problems with ease.
Edmonton Journal sports writer and Oiler savant, David Staples, was also there.
In his former life as UK garage savant the Streets, Skinner forged a new way of being a pop star, breaking down the barriers between performer and producer.
But his success meant that life imitated art, and he emerged as a business savant.
"Twitter is the canary in the news coalmine," wrote Jeff Jarvis, a new-media savant, after the service beat mainstream media to news about the earthquake that struck China's Sichuan province in May 2008.But there are plenty of other examples.
He suggests the secret of becoming a savant is "hyper-systematising and hyper-attention to detail".
The third criterion, however, is that a person has what are known as restrictive and repetitive behaviours and interests, or RRBI, in the jargon.Until recently, the feeling among many researchers was that the first two features were crucial to someone becoming a savant.
It also reduces "false" memories (savants tend to remember things literally, rather than constructing a mnemonic narrative and remembering that).There are, however, examples of people who seem very neurotypical indeed achieving savant-like skills through sheer diligence.
It suggests that as many as 30% of autistic people have some sort of savant-like capability in areas such as calculation or music.
Dr Maguire and her team have now turned their attention to how cabbies learn the Knowledge.The prodigious geographical knowledge of the average cabbie is, indeed, savant-like.
His stubbornness in clinging to the surface of things has a savant-like quality.
Three other defendants – Ibrahim Savant, 28, Arafat Khan, 28, and 25-year-old Waheed Zaman were cleared and the jury failed to reach verdicts on charges of conspiracy to murder.
