Nothing too serious, i want to hear your petty, your eccentric, your off beat takes.

  • GaumBeist@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    You’re using “ignore” wrong, not the other way around.

    If you want to be a linguistic pedant, then we should consider that both “ignorant” and “ignore” ultimately comes from proto-indo-european *ǵneh₃-, which meant “to know”, and a negation prefix. So really the words should mean “the act of not knowing” (ignore) and “the quality/state of not knowing” (ignorant). Not avoiding knowledge, just lacking it