And lo on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:40:47 +0100, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake, saying:

> 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.)

Only because they're ignorant about what naive means :-P

Most neutral term seems to be "didn't know" or "don't know" - "John didn't  
know what happened last night" oops "John can't remember what happened  
last night" ;-)

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Phil Cook

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