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In reply to the discussion: Trump pronounces Yosemite as "yo-Semites" at White House event. [View all]Cirque du So-What
(25,938 posts)25. There is a difference
According to British legal stature, an idiot is an individual with an IQ of less than 20, an imbecile has an IQ of between 20 and 49, and a moron an IQ between 50 and 69. Cretins are specifically persons with a deformity or mental retardation caused by a thyroid deficiency; cretinism is now more commonly called hyperthyroidism. Idoit isderived from the Greek for "private person" (as in idiosyncracy); moron is from the Greek for "foolish"; imbecile is a construction from a Latin phrase meaning "without a stick"; cretin comes, via the French, from the word "Christian" and implies a holy person - God's fool" as it were.
I'm going with idiot.
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And don't forget Rex Tillerson, who added a famous expletive before the "moron."
Mike 03
Aug 2020
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