(December 17, 2015 at 6:29 pm)Reflex Wrote: DBP's post is a excellent example of carelessness. If you read a little further in the article, you'll see that Wikipedia's introductory "definition" has little or nothing in common with the word's etymology, which is much more specific. Overall, it is a grand example what happens when words are carelessly used over time: they lose their specificity and dissolve into ambiguity and meaninglessness.
And yet it was still there as part of the definition, there were other usages but you must admit that it also has the meaning you want to ignore so that you can continue to berate others. You have been proved wrong , now grow a pair and accept it.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
