"And if Dubya's been idificated and still does it it's a sign of stupidity."
Maybe. "Educated" people tried for years to get me to change my ignorant habit of referring to my home town as Loo-uh-vul. It never worked. They gave all kinds of hints that I wasn't quite up to snuff, but none of them ever had the guts to say it to my face. More to the point, while one of my best friends, a truly brilliant fellow, knows the one and only correct pronunciation and nevertheless insists on saying noo-cyu-lar, it wouldn't even occur to me to think of him as either ignorant or stupid.
http://wingedsphere.com/ftv/ftv_home.htm Dean Z is the short-haired guy on the left. I'd like to educate him - I only wish I were qualified.
All of this is not of course to say that I don't feel a bit jealous that the Brits have someone so articulate, sincere, thoughtful, and, well, just plain smart, as Tony Blair.
"Ignorance can be cured, stupidity goes all the way to the bone."
I've heard that too. In fact, I don't think ignorance is such a bad thing at all, as everyone I've ever met possessed it to some degree. I'm not sure how it ever became a put-down.
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