Re: All hail Bob!

Bob Badour wrote:
> JOG wrote:
>
> > Keith H Duggar wrote:
> >
> >>JOG wrote:
> >>
> >>>Strider wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Fabian Pascal at his site has whole section dedicated to
> >>>>analyzing and identifying ignorance and ignorami:
> >>>>http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/3161496.htm
> >>>
> >>>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
> >>>;)
> >>
> >>Ignoramus IS a Latin word (not just "latin-looking" though
> >>ignoramus is not a Latin noun). It is _also_ an English word
> >>(noun).
> >
> > People make the same mistake with completely non-latin words such as
> > virus, hence the catch all.
> >
> >
> >>Therefore one could reasonably allow an informal
> >>discussant the flexibility to use ignorami (which would
> >>probably have been correct Latin had ignoramus been a noun)
> >
> > Yes, 'Ignoramus' is not a latin noun and as such, using 'ignorami' is
> > incorrect.
> >
> >
> >>rather than ignoramuses (correct English). So it is not a
> >>"sure" sign of ignorance and thus may or may not be
> >>ironic.
> >
> > If one is does not know the correct use, one is ignorant of it, and
> > that, despite what alanis morissette might have told you, is ironic.
>
> Fabian coined the term vociferous ignoramus (as near as I can tell), and
> I have seen him use the 'ignorami' plural form many times. He has an
> exceptional proficiency with language and his mother tongue is one of
> the modern languages that largely resembles latin. I think it is safe to
> assume he is well aware of any irony.
>
> I am sure he is also aware of the irony that those who lack the
> intellectual honesty or capability to address substantive points and who
> instead nit pick irrelevant minutiae are the same people who dismiss RM
> proponents as 'pedantic'.
>
> Romanes eunt domus!

quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur! Received on Thu May 11 2006 - 13:20:42 CEST