slowmutant wrote:
But it's used as an insult as often as in psychiatric journals. BTW "moron" and "idiot" were orignally psychiatric jargon. On a sliding scale, one was considered lower than the other. Anyone know if a moron is lower than an idoit? For serious.
I think idiot was lower, when they were used as medical jargon. However, only moron was invented as a medical term. Idiot was an insult in ancient Greek (but wasn't about intelligence at that time), and became an insult to intelligence as it made its way into English long before it became a medical term.
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