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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Personify

I heard a native speaker say (in a movie):

Your lack of knowledge personifies your ignoracne.

Personification means "a person who represents an abstract quality", how does this definition concord with the above sentence?!
  

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Hi, Your example does not seem to be a good use of the word. I'd prefer Your lack of knowledge reveals (the extent of ) your ignorance or You personify ignorance. Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, Your example does not seem to be a good use of the word.
  • I'd prefer Your lack of knowledge reveals (the extent of ) your ignorance or You personify ignorance.
  • Clive
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Hi,



Your example does not seem to be a good use of the word.



I'd prefer

Your lack of knowledge reveals (the extent of ) your ignorance

or

You personify ignorance.



Clive
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AH020387Your lack of knowledge personifies your ignoracne.
I agree this is a bad example, or even a misuse of the term.

As a special insult, we might correctly say, "You are the very personification of ignorance!"

Edit.I somehow missed your second example, Clive.
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