no propaganda please wrote:
Just what does an idiot look like? Maybe the clouds are saying "that looks like a bunny rabbit, and that looks like a cat chasing a mouse." Or do you think that clouds are smarter than people and much wiser?
The Greek adjective idios means “one’s own” or “private.” The derivative noun idiōtēs means “private person.” A Greek idiōtēs was a person who was not in the public eye, who held no public office. From this came the sense “common man,” and later “ignorant person”—a natural extension, for the common people of ancient Greece were not, in general, particularly learned. The English idiot originally meant “ignorant person,” but the more usual reference now is to a person who lacks basic intelligence or common sense rather than education.