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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (32242)	2/4/2009 5:08:27 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 71588

Nothing fancy about those words at all. Not nearly as fancy as words we've both used on this thread today (for example "investible interest"). stupid/intelligent ignorant/knowledgeable (or you could substitute (uninformed/informed to match Peter's usage) foolish/wise All are very ordinary words. In each case the word to the right of the / is the positive opposite of the word to the left. None of the 6 words means the same as any of the others, but that doesn't make them "fancy". And saying someone is ignorant, doesn't say anything about their intelligence. Certainly there is a correlation between ignorance and stupidity, but they are different things. Of course saying that the majority of Americans are ignorant or uninformed (esp. with the the modifier that I used to make the full statement "rationally ignorant"), might reasonably be considered an insult. Its just not an insult of their intelligence, anymore than saying they where ugly or smelled bad, would be an insult of their intelligence. So you could argue there was an insult, but not necessarily a very severe one, or an inaccurate one.