Wow. OK!
It's been some time since I posted anything on this yere blog. No one misses it, except maybe Trey Sensation, and he's a moron. Well, that's harsh. Maybe he isn't. He may be an idiot, or an imbecile.
Which is my segue into the theme of this post!
My friend the CFO is fond of the old-timey IQ classifications, but, as is often the case, he doesn't have the facts. We were never quite sure of the heirarchy, and thence, unsure of the correct label to apply to someone one wishes to disparage (or upgrade, as in the CFO's case). I have always meant to look them up, but never remembered to do it. So, I will quickly divert my attention away from blogging to do a bit of research. Off I go to Google.
dumdydumdydumdumdum.
All righty then! I'm back with the facks.
These are the old IQ classifications which were used, incredibly, up until the 1970's!
In case you were wondering.
IQ range for each classification: 70-80 Borderline deficiency
50-69 Moron
20-49 Imbecile
below 20 Idiot
So now you know. This means it's actually good to be a moron! My name-calling above wasn't so harsh after all.
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I like the IQ-orientation of the terms, but it's just too numberish for me. There's the very useful "mental age equivalency" that works well & is quite descriptive:
Adult with mental age of:
9-12 = Moron
6-8 = Imbecile
5 & under = Idiot
(So says our bat mitzvah boy: instead of "today I am a man," "today I'm no longer a moron.")
But I think where you've got to go with this in order to best fit the disparaging label with the person is the word origins:
Moron: foolish/dull
Imbecile: weakness/feebleness
Idiot: an ordinary person; layman; person lacking in professional skill.
Now we're getting somewhere -- not limited to a single label for Trey Sensation, but any combination of the 3 might fit!
But for my money, you just can't beat "cretin":
a dwarfed & deformed idiot.
So now we've got all numbers people thinking:
"Harrumph...then cretins are merely subsets of idiots" and sketching out concentric and interconnecting circles in their heads...
What morons...
Well, sure, Dude. We could go into that. Maybe we can assign IQ scale ranges to all of the popular terms, too.
So like, putz, for example. Where does he fall on the scale? What about dickhead and dolt? Or schmegegge? Butthead? Bucket-head? Peabrain? Pinhead?
How 'bout it VR?
By the way, cretin is one of my favorites.
And that thing about the overlapping circles showing subsets is an elegant graphic illustration...
I miss it. If that makes me a mungelaar, I'm OK with that. P. Reeters
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