Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately I cannot edit the reply, but I sincerely apologize for my choice of words. I am not a native English speaker, so I was actually using it as a more rough expression for "outcast". People lost or trapped in themselves, possibly due to unlucky past; because of this, they've become antisocial (thinking of Lester Ballard from McCarthy's "Child of God"). Nothing to do with mental performance.
A really embarrassing error, entirely due to poor command of English language. Once again, I apologize. I wish you all the best, mate.
Re:Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Lettera 32
by bradknowles on Sunday January 29, 2023 @03:43AM
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Understood. I thank you for your response!
I confess that when I was much younger, I used that same word in the same way. It was only after my coming to understand how my usage of that word had hurt other people that I came to where I am today.
So, yours is a pain that I know well, and I trust that we are both better for this exchange.
Thanks!
[0] Which was later demonstrated to be due to a lack of inspiration from my math teachers, a fact that Mrs. King taught me so well in her pre-algebra class in 9th grade. From then on, I got straight As in math. To this day, nearly forty years later, I still credit Mrs. King for helping me get down the path to whatever success I have had in life.