I’ve always taught my children what I consider the difference between stupid and ignorant.Stupid is doing things wrong when you know what’s right. Ignorant is when you don’t know something. Not trying to improve one’’s self is stupid.
My father (b,1899) came off a dirt farm in Alabama. Left the farm 1924 and self taught himself to electrical and a refrigeration engineer degrees. His creedo was if anyone else can do it so can I, even if it is brain surgery. He also invented some machinery safety equipment when he saw some fellow employees lose life and limbs to badly design machines he worked around.
Words have meanings.
Their etymology greatly influences common usage.
For example, the difference between stupid and ignorant. First take look at the etymology of the root word.
Ignorant ascribes a quality of ignoring. To ignore is to not know, to be unaware, to not pay attention to. It implies an act of volition to not consider information in one's thinking.
Stupid refers to being stunned in the senses, in grief, or shock, slow to think, amazed or confounded. Stupid refers the slowness of reasoning.
When you use the two words, I would tend to use them in an opposite fashion regarding 'ignorant'. A person might know something, but willfully chooses to not pay attention to it in his thinking, is whom I would describe as ignorant.
A word with similar meaning is 'dumb', but it generally is rooted with being mute or unable to speak.
In the case of Jeantel, I would describe her as having the ability to talk, or to jive, but poorly educated in how to speak, as in speaking to an assembly. Her lack of education is partly attributable to less academics, but predominantly influenced by a culture seeking to pay no attention to others, as in the promotion of arrogance.
[[My father (b,1899) came off a dirt farm in Alabama. Left the farm 1924 and self taught himself to electrical and a refrigeration engineer degrees. His creedo was if anyone else can do it so can I, even if it is brain surgery. He also invented some machinery safety equipment when he saw some fellow employees lose life and limbs to badly design machines he worked around.]]
Sounded liek a great father- accomplished much- and you’ree right- stupid and ignorant are two distinct ‘conditions’- But liek I mentioend in previous post- there are times when ‘being ignant’ is fine, and times when it’s not- being o n a wtiness stand isn’t one of those times- Is she was ‘celebrating her selfness’ and can’t turn off her selfness when it’s appropriate to do so, then yeah- she’s stupid- which does appear to be the case-