Confirmed. I, and two other SoIL natives, all 25 or under, know and use "ignorant" as "rude". I also know it the other way as rude=ignorant, but I think that's literary affectation creeping in. -dsb Douglas S. Bigham Department of Linguistics University of Texas - Austin http://hometown.aol.com/capn002/myhomepage/index.html