More specifically, is there a Latin word which expresses a level of stupidity so monumental that it’s epic?
While we wait for the Latin scholars to get here I’d like to offer the following:
Stultus est sicut stultus facit which means stupid is as stupid does.
And now the real reason for this post. While looking around for a phrase meaning epically stupid I came across this gem hiding among an impressive pile of classically looking phrases:
Furnulum pani nolo which seems to translate as I don’t want a toaster.
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Stultus est sicut stultus facit which means stupid is as stupid does.
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I’d always seen “stultus est ut stultus agit”, but I’m not a Latin scholar.
MINGING SUM NE
In the UK’s current Celebrity Big Brother, this is the motto on a crest stuck to one of the doors; it refers to one of the contestants, who became a celebrity due to her appearance in a “normal” Big Brother season, and famously asked “Am I minging?” (minging = English slang for ugly, itself derived from a slang word for rotten/stinky.)
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English- Latin
stupid- plumbeus, bardus
imbecilis (origin of imbecil) meant “someone lacking the ability to reason; someone too stupid to decide for himself”. Children, the dement and women were considered imbecile.
Does" politician " count ?I’m sure the word has latin origins.
I’d go with stupiditas aere perennius, literally, ‘stupidity more lasting than bronze’ which has the added advantage of being an allusion to a well-known poem of Horace, Ode III.30, in which he refers to his poetry as a ‘monumentum aere perennius’.
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While we wait for the Latin scholars to get here I’d like to offer the following:
Stultus est sicut stultus facit which means stupid is as stupid does.
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Ah! Forrest Gump in Latin! How do you say, “And that’s all I have to say about that”?
Or:
“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get”.
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imbecilis (origin of imbecil) meant “someone lacking the ability to reason; someone too stupid to decide for himself”. Children, the dement and women were considered imbecile.
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How about people who forget to inflect their adjectives?
Bardus Advoco
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“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get”.
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But obviously, this Forrest Gump quote is just plain wrong!
There are patterns on the top of chocolates indicating what kind each one is. I even remember reading an article from Cecil on these patterns about 20 years ago.
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More specifically, is there a Latin word which expresses a level of stupidity so monumental that it’s epic?
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Schottenheimer.
No, wait. That’s German.
Quale?
Qualee?
Can’t remember about the last “e”
“Stultus” would take the comparative “stultior” and the superlative “stultissimus”. It’s the root word for the English “stultifying”.
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How about people who forget to inflect their adjectives?
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Sorry?