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To: BwanaNdege
Sometimes I get so sick & tired of euphemisms.

Rush recently coined the term "low information voter" as sort of a joke. He uses that term instead of "moron." It's the kinder, gentler, non-threatening Rush--his joke.

47 posted on 12/28/2012 11:02:24 AM PST by WXRGina (Further up and further in!)
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To: WXRGina
Well, since it is Rush, I'll give him a pass.

"Ignorant" or "moron" are so much more concise.

In the same vein, the term "agnostic" comes from the Greek.

"Agnostic (from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-), meaning "without", and γνῶσις (gnōsis), meaning "knowledge") was used by Thomas Henry Huxley in a speech at a meeting of the Metaphysical Society in 1869[12] to describe his philosophy which rejects all claims of spiritual or mystical knowledge."

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism"

The same term in Latin is:

"ignoramus (n.)

1570s, from an Anglo-French legal term (early 15c.), from L. ignoramus "we do not know," first person present indicative of ignorare "not to know" (see ignorant).

The legal term was one a grand jury could write on a bill when it considered the prosecution's evidence insufficient. Sense of "ignorant person" came from the title role of George Ruggle's 1615 play satirizing the ignorance of common lawyers."

"http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ignoramus"

"Ignoramus" sounds like a good description to me.

55 posted on 12/28/2012 12:11:43 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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