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[[User:Gamaliel|Gamaliel]], just found out that your mom put a dog's penis into her asshole...then you licked the dog's dick it clean and kissed your mom on the lips. Fuck with others, others fuck you. |
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The word is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word ιδιωτης, ''idiôtês'', "a private citizen, individual", from ιδιος, ''idios'', "private". |
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==Antiquity== |
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*In ancient [[Athens]], an idiot was a person who declined to take part in public life, such as democratic city government. |
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Since such activities were honorable and could directly affect all citizens, idiot became a term of derision. See [[Athenian democracy]]. |
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* In hellenistic Egypt, it was simply a term for soldier, derived from the ''idios logos'' (treasury) that paid them (so analogous to the word soldier from sold!) |
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==Handicap== |
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In [[medicine]] and [[psychology]], an '''idiot''' is a person with a very severe [[mental retardation]] or a very low [[IQ]] level. |
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Idiots were defined as people whose IQ were below 20 (with a standard deviation of 16). In the current classification, these people are now said to have [[profound mental retardation]]. |
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The word is no longer used as a scientific term. |
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==Abusive?== |
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In modern [[English language|English]] and other languages, [[idiot]] is also a [[derogatory]] term used to [[insult]]. Its use usually means "You are [[Stupidity|stupid]]." It can also be taken to mean "I don't like you" or "What a mistake that was." The term ‘idiot’ can be used [[Colloquially]] for a person of [[Normal intelligence]] or even above [[Average intelligence]] who acts unintelligently. It's socially [[okay]] for example to refer to a group of [[drunk]]en idiots 'acting up' in a bar. |
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The term Idiot can also be used jokingly about people of normal intelligence though the author may have been pretending they were acting unreasonably. |
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[[Paradoxically]], however, ‘idiot’ cannot easily be used to describe someone who is ‘’genuinely’’ mentally retarded. In the [[21st Century]] such use would be seen as insensitive, hurtful, or [[Political correctness|Politically incorrect]]. |
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A select number of authors have used "idiot" characters in novels, plays and poetry. Often these characters are used to highlight or indicate something else, that is, often these characters are an allegorical technique. Examplars of such usage are [[William Faulkner]]'s ''[[The Sound and the Fury]]'' and [[William Wordsworth]]'s ''[[The Idiot Boy]]''. Idiot characters in literature are often confused with or subsumed within mad or lunatic characters. The most common imbrication between these two categories of mental impairment occurs in the polemic surrounding Edmund from [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[King Lear]]''. |
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==Other uses== |
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* "Idiot box" is a slang term for [[television]]. |
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* "[[American Idiot]]" is a parody sketch on the TV. |
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* "Idiot savant" was the original term for [[savant syndrome]], used to describe people who excel in one particular thing while being below-average in other mental or behavioral areas. Many of these people are also [[autistic savant]]s. |
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==Quotes== |
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"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of [[Congress of the United States|Congress]]. But I repeat myself." ([[Mark Twain]], c.[[1882]]) [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=idiot] |
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==External links and references== |
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*[http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=idiot Dictionary.Reference.Com] "Middle English, ignorant person, from Old French idiote, from Latin idita, from Greek idits, private person, layman, from idios, own, private." |
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*[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=idiot Etymonline] "c.1300, "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning," from O.Fr. idiote "uneducated or ignorant person," from L. idiota "ordinary person, layman," in L.L. "uneducated or ignorant person," from Gk. idiotes "layman, person lacking professional skill," lit. "private person," used patronizingly for "ignorant person," from idios "one's own." |
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Revision as of 02:45, 10 September 2005
Gamaliel, just found out that your mom put a dog's penis into her asshole...then you licked the dog's dick it clean and kissed your mom on the lips. Fuck with others, others fuck you.