“She was red filled with ire!
A dry wood would have caught fire!
Just like the the waterfall it drops
Thank heavens for the emotional stops!”
How many times you have called this to someone in anger!?
The starting point of name calling usually is with this name! Of course for people like me who do not go to severe name calling!
read on!
Now do not call me that for delaying the answer!
The answer is Idiot! I usually use the indian version of GAVAR!
When you simply call someone an Idiot, you are actually calling him a deft definition of a child whose mental capacity is not gone beyond two years! In fact there is a big classification of Idiots!
As early as 1912, Edmund Burke Huey proposed a classification of ‘feeble minded children’ .
His classification goes like this
Idiots. —Those so defective that the mental development never exceeds that of a normal child of about two years.
Imbeciles. —Those whose development is higher than that of an idiot, but whose intelligence does not exceed that of a normal child of about seven years finally Morons. —Those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years!
Of these three words moron is the newest (it dates to the early 20th century), and the only one coined specifically for the purpose of medical diagnosis!
The word comes from the Greek mōros, meaning “foolish, stupid,” and shares this etymology with words such as sophomore (“a student in the second year at college or a 4-year secondary school”) and morosoph (“a learned fool”)!
But in the age of the Millennials and the Gen Z and the latest generations; these classifications are what Joe says; a Moo point!
Imbecile began its life in English in the 16th century from the Latin imbecillus, “weak, weak-minded” while Idiot, from the Greek idios (“private” or “one’s own”), is the oldest of these words, and has been in continual use since the 14th century.
The levels of idiocy has also been extended to include words like Jobbernowl, loblolly, driveler! These offer just a glimpse of the many non-clinical ways our language has of referring to those chuckleheads in your way! And yes chucklehead is just a stupid person!
Finally the naming of Down’s syndrome is deeply rooted in the classification of idiocy. This was by the British physician John Down who sought a useful classification in order to provide better care. Apparently on his way to a brilliant career in London, Down chose instead to become the superintendent of Royal Earlswood Asylum for Idiots and later published a new classification of “idiocy” based on a theory that it could be related to ethnicity. This of course was shocking and it took one century for the great non IDIOTs of the British society to realise that there can be more intelligent people in other races also!
Down referred to the condition as mongolism then almost a century later a group of physicians wrote to the Lancet to demand that mongolism be abandoned as a medical term and the current term; Down syndrome, was adopted! The naming of this condition as Down is actually a definite breaking of prejudice!
Free of Prejudice and only pure talent also was Paliyath Jayachandran! He will be missed
Heartfelt condolences…
Om Shanthi
Shubh Ratri…
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