Posted on 08/30/2016 4:49:46 AM PDT by simpson96
I wonder how many people would know that a special needs cretin was most likely not a native of an island in the Mediterranean Sea? And that common adjectives are not capitalized like proper nouns? Hmmm.
Not sure what you are unsuccessfully trying to communicate.
Are you suggesting Cretan shouldn’t be capitalized? If so, do you write ‘american’ instead of ‘American’? Do you ever consult a dictionary? http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cretan
I was making myself obtuse, so as to give you the chance to find something out for yourself.
(1) I think you made a joke based on the perpetrator's name "Moran" (which is an Irish surname, and thus a proper noun) by intimating that she ought to spell it "moron" which is a noun meaning a person with very litle intellectual capacity. But, if that is what she has indicated herself to be--at least in the figurative sense--then the word ought not to be capitalized.
Are you with me?
(2) So, I took it that, unless you were referring to the natives of the island Crete (who were spoken of in the New Testament of the Bible in the book of Titus, chapter 1, verses 5, 12, and 13) you were suggesting that because she was of such a minimum I. Q. that she was too ignorant to be able to spell "moron" correctly.
Did I get you right on that?
Are you suggesting Cretan shouldn’t be capitalized? If so, do you write ‘american’ instead of ‘American’?
(3) But then, I took it that in identifying her as a person of such low mentality that she might even be so diminished as to call her a "cretin," which is the correct spelling of the common noun having the same meaning as "moron," so you asked the question that was just a little bit too cute to inadvertently show that you yourself had so little grasp of the English language such that you could not even write the question without exposing your own ignorance.
(4) (Unless, of course, you were really subtly referring to Miss Manfreda-Moran as perhaps having been born as a citizen of the Island of Crete--a Cretan--in which case she might really be classed as being from a culture of "slow-bellies," as imputed by Apostle Paul in his letter to his student Titus, a missionary to the people of that island).
(5)If you're not able to understand what I just said, and what I was implying in my own cute way to others reading out little interchange, I would ask you to find someone who can spell both "moron" and "cretin" with correct grammar.
Do you ever consult a dictionary?
(6) Often. Lexicons and encyclopedias and thesauruses and search engines, too. Referring to the dictionary you cited, here's how to spell the word correctly, if it has the meaning you thought: cretin (click here)
But I think the joke is on you, my FRiend.
Toodle-oo!
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