@Cerberus Now you're just making stuff up.

I don't think the best English in the world will help him now.

@Mitch Only now?

the word dense contains two apparently contradictory definitions: 1. stupid; slow-witted; dull; 2. difficult to understand because of being closely packed with ideas or complexities of style.

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@tchrist neither German nor Russian even have the I version in the first place. And good on them. Fuck Ancient Greek. If you want to speak Ancient Greek, speak Ancient Greek. If you want to speak English, well, speak English then.

Maybe even more to the point, if you speak Ancient Greek, you will actually die.

Buyer beware.

@CaptainBohemian Don't be so dense.

haha

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But seriously, that second one, 'dense' can be -used- in that situation ('densely packed -with information-) but the context has to be specified. i.e. 'He is dense' means only one thing, he is stupid. It can't mean by itself that 'he contains multitudes of ideas'.

Oh... just looked at your Free Dictionary link. Hm... I suppose, but the wording there seems to imply muddledness.

I am getting annoyed with dictionaries that add meaning entries for uses that are metaphorical that aren't sort of essential meanings of the word (like this one of 'dense').

I'm going to write my congressman in charge of the committee of lexicography.

This is Apollo Control; 44 hours, 28 minutes GET. Apollo 11 crew has another 2 hours, 31 minutes in their 10-hour sleep period. We're now 72,010 miles out from the Moon. Velocity continuing to decelerate now showing 3,811FPS.

10 hours for sleep? Slackers.

@Mitch a profound issue for an outsider can be muddled, but why is an outsider an outsider of that profound issue? it can be because he is stupid.

@Mitch I wonder, why is densei not a word yet? Should be the most appropriate and useful coinage for the Internet.

@RegDwigнt Take your pick

@NVZ That's loser talk.

@Robusto uh. Hm. That's quite a gamut on offer. I think I'll be taking the "speaking tube". Thanks. Chips on the side, please.

@Robusto no, that's Tom Scott.

And if you're not subscribed to him, you should be reconsidering your life's choices.

If you are subscribed, then all your choices so far have been great. Carry on.

@RegDwigнt I refuse to write, or type, or text, or whatever, like an imbecile. ok 4u?

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