Dummy is the new Layman

“If I was calling them idiots, I would have used ‘idiots'"

-- Philip Yeo Liat Kok, chairman of Spring Singapore and Special Advisor for Economic Development in the Prime Minister's office, who definitely has problem in the English language. He explained that in his remarks about people who buy applications for Apple products, he used the word “dummies” to mean “laymen, which is the major market” and not as an insult.

According to Dictionary.com:

Dummy –noun Informal . a stupid person; dolt.

Idiot –noun an utterly foolish or senseless person.