adjective 1. lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man. 2. lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact: ignorant of quantum physics. 3. uninformed; unaware. 4. due to or showing lack of knowledge or training: an ignorant statement.
I think i'm fairly happy with those definitions. The state of ignorance can usually be rectified by learning, (the meaning of life the universe and everything not so much). Being ignorant only becomes an insult when there is a flat out refusal to learn. Off course you can't learn everything either. So everyone is ignorant to some extent.
adjective 1. lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man. 2. lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact: ignorant of quantum physics. 3. uninformed; unaware. 4. due to or showing lack of knowledge or training: an ignorant statement.
I think i'm fairly happy with those definitions. The state of ignorance can usually be rectified by learning, (the meaning of life the universe and everything not so much). Being ignorant only becomes an insult when there is a flat out refusal to learn. Off course you can't learn everything either. So everyone is ignorant to some extent.
You are quite right of course, but as I'm sure you are aware the use of the word ignorant today is often intended to convey the more pejorative uneducated and unsophisticated, or even stupid. Many people are highly insulted if called ignorant. So despite its dictionary meaning, the word is often used and understood in a wider negative context.
The joke is that nobody can be stupid enough not to know the orientation of the paper in their printer. It's like figuring out which end of the plug to insert into the wall receptacle......
I can about guarantee that if you saw a Brother MFC-J5520DW for the first time, you’d study the manual or else spend quite a bit of time experimenting.
I once worked in a shop, that had a fax machine on the front counter for customers to use back when people did not know what a facsimile machine was. We had one client that truly believed that the machine somehow sent the page to the destination. They insisted that we make a copy for them to keep before we sent the fax. Not everyone is a rocket scientist ! ! !