On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:20:17 -0500, Mark Shroyer
<usenet-mail@markshroyer.com> wrote:
>On 2007-12-11, Paul Myron Hobson <phobson@gatech.edu> wrote:
>> Mark (no relation) wrote:
>>> i DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. uNSUBSCRIBE ME NOW.
>>>
>>> i WILL REPORT YOU TO GOOGLE.
>>
>> Please do. I'm sure Google will be very interested to know what
>> I'm doing with my Georgia Tech news access. It won't make you
>> look like an idiot in the least.
>>
>> \\paul
>
>My first thought, after reading this, was that this poor fool had
>gotten himself subscribed to a Usenet-email relay somewhere, and
>immediately assumed that we ourselves were somehow responsible for
>our articles showing up in his email inbox. However, his postings'
>headers claim that he is using Xnews, a "real" news client -- if
>that's the case, then there really is no imaginable excuse for such
>a display...
>
>As a linguistic aside, I've heard the term "bellignorant" proposed
>for such cases, intended as an amalgamation of "belligerent" and
>"ignorant": someone whose lack of understanding in some area does
>not drive him to seek a more complete knowledge of the subject, or
>else cause him to keep his mouth shut, as might be expected of any
>rational person. Instead, the bellignorant individual is
>*incapable* of recognizing his own lack of understanding. When
>something doesn't go his way he immediately, irrationally, and
>embarrassingly lashes out against those whom he wrongly deems
>responsible.
>
> Bellignorant, adj.:
> 1. Eager to attack or confront on account of one's own
> ignorance
>
> Bellignorance, n.:
> 1. A belligerent sort of ignorance
>
>"Mark"'s (no relation) post, for example, is a textbook example of
>bellignorance. A more well-publicized example is the following:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuttle,_Oklahoma#CentOS_Incident
>
>Typical characteristics of a bellignorant communication:
>
> 1. Excessive and confusing use of personal pronouns, as Tom pointed
> out above.
>
> 2. Empty threats to contact some authority, whether or not said
> authority would actually have any jurisdiction over the matter
> (FBI, Google, etc.).
>
> 3. An unprovoked hostile attitude even after the individual has
> been made fully aware of his own mistake. (The bellignorant
> individual will never issue an apology.)
>
> 4. Childish name-calling.
>
>I think it's a very useful term that fills an important niche in the
>English language. Maybe we should start a petition to
>Merriam-Webster, Houghton Mifflin, the Oxford University Press, and
>others for its inclusion into the dictionary?
Very good, thank you. The best way to get words into the dictionary
are to use them. I intend to use this one.