Stephen wrote:
> It's cultural Warp, Calling someone ignorant implies that they are
> boorish. Quite a bad insult.

Note, however, that it's perfectly acceptable to say "John is ignorant 
of what happened last week" or some such. Unfortunately, "ignorant" has 
gotten bad connotations and I don't know any word that means similar 
that doesn't.  "Naive" is about as close as it comes.  (I have said 
people are "computer naive" and it seems to bother people less than 
saying they're "ignorant of computer technology" or some such.)

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