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To: pabianice

Who do you mean by “You dunce?”


12 posted on 02/23/2011 12:15:39 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Remember, Reflect, Renew: 2011, 10 years since 9/11. Never Forget.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Sarcasm aimed at those who believe what I wrote.


14 posted on 02/23/2011 12:18:02 PM PST by pabianice
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To: La Enchiladita
i think he meant someone was a dunce, which has kind of an interesting derivation: dunce [dʌns] n a person who is stupid or slow to learn [from Dunses or Dunsmen, term of ridicule applied to the followers of John Duns Scotus (?1265-1308), Scottish scholastic theologian and Franciscan priest, especially by 16th-century humanists]
15 posted on 02/23/2011 12:18:34 PM PST by beebuster2000
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