Intellectual Snobbery
May. 6th, 2004 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielI wish people would take the time to look words up in the dictionary before going to class. When they don't they just sound stupid. Which, actually, turns out quite entertaining for me.
Today in Philosophy we were discussing Aristotle's Politics and the division between classes and such. Someone brought up the issue of race, which is a fairly modern idea. At any rate, a girl in the class asked, "Well, what do you make of the use of the word 'niggardly' on page blah blah blah?"
HA! You're in college. I assume you have a dictionary. Two words for you: Use. It.
nig-gard-ly adj. 1. Grudging or petty in giving or spending. 2. Meanly small; scanty or meager.
It's really not that hard people. Besides the obvious little fact of it, y'know, being spelled differently than the racial slur.
Have I mentioned that I'm the only English Major in the class? Maybe that's the problem...
Today in Philosophy we were discussing Aristotle's Politics and the division between classes and such. Someone brought up the issue of race, which is a fairly modern idea. At any rate, a girl in the class asked, "Well, what do you make of the use of the word 'niggardly' on page blah blah blah?"
HA! You're in college. I assume you have a dictionary. Two words for you: Use. It.
nig-gard-ly adj. 1. Grudging or petty in giving or spending. 2. Meanly small; scanty or meager.
It's really not that hard people. Besides the obvious little fact of it, y'know, being spelled differently than the racial slur.
Have I mentioned that I'm the only English Major in the class? Maybe that's the problem...
