Re: Troll vs. Crank

"Marshall" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1150480472.643099.135200_at_f6g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Sometimes our vocabulary limits our understanding.
> (The "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis".) I think this has been
> happening to me lately.

> But until lately, I haven't really had a concept, or a term, to
> describe someone who *does* believe his own posts, but whose posts are
> nonetheless of no redeeming value. (I am unclear how this hole
> in my understanding has persisted for so long--an excess of
> faith in human nature, perhaps. I am also beginning to believe
> I posess a certain gullibility.)

• What a crank is that guy over there ...
• Mommy! Mommy! What's a crank ?
• Someone who doesn't know that what he say is absurd and would not listen ...
• Mommy, what if we are cranks and we don't know it ?