Subject: Word Definition
Date: Apr 12 20:05:48 2004
From: SGMlod at aol.com - SGMlod at aol.com


Greetings All

I should probably not publish this to the list. I will speak once, and then
be quiet, but I can not hold my tongue (I know, it's too slippery).

The assertion that "idiot" is not a derogatory in British parlance is absurd.

>From the Cambridge (England, not Massachusetts) dictionary. First definition.

idiot noun [C]
a stupid person or someone who is behaving in a stupid way:
Some idiot left the tap running in the bathroom and there's water everywhere.
[as form of address] You stupid idiot - that's a month's work you've lost!

Maybe I should look up "derogatory."

Cheers
Steven Mlodinow



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