Re: All hail Bob!

From: J M Davitt <jdavitt_at_aeneas.net>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 21:59:11 GMT
Message-ID: <Pmt8g.23475$YI5.7784_at_tornado.ohiordc.rr.com>


JOG wrote:
> Strider wrote:
>

>>>On another note, does anyone have any thoughts as to why
>>>willful ignorance and mediocrity has become so fashionable?
>>>Or has it always been in fashion?
>>>
>>>Keith
>>>
>>
>>Fabian Pascal at his site has whole section dedicated to analyzing and
>>identifying ignorance and ignorami:
>>http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/3161496.htm

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> There's a certain sense of irony at work when people use the incorrect
> plural of ignoramus. Faux pluralisation of latin-looking words is a
> sure sign of.... well, nevermind ;)

I'll take a stab at it: 2nd declension, male, nomitive, singular? And the plural is ignoramiores? (I don't *really* know, but they did beat me on the head with Latin books for three years...)

>>and at the end of this article
>>http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/3350774.htm
>>there are some links to his essays regarding state of the industry,
>>education, western society...
>>-- 
>>S.

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