Erminia:
"
the reason why you are being delirious is because you tried to oppose to my
clear and immaculate definition of "stupid" and "stupidity " (as being dull
and slow in mental and emotional perception ) (so, please, read my letter,
before getting into a frenzy of uncontrolled responses)
"
... if you in turn read +my+ post, you will no doubt note that nowhere do I
venture a definition of the +contemporary+ consensual meaning of
"stupid/ity".
I was concerned to (a) challenge your (what seemed to me, somewhat glib)
etymology of "stupid/ity", and (b) [and more importantly] explore the
fashion in which the word(s) originally emerge in English.
Now, if you +really+ wanted to undercut me, in defence of your own thrust
that the "meaning" of 'stupid/ity' is medical, you +could+ draw attention
to the fact (?) that the words first appear in English, in 1541, in a
translation into English of a 14thC Italian commentator, writing in Latin,
on a 2ndC AD Greek physician.
[I didn't draw overt attention to this in my original post, as I assumed
that this was +so+ obvious. But maybe not ...]
But then there are The Dead Years after Copland, whereafter the word is
redefined ...
But, lor', explaining a joke ...
'Nuff's enough.
Robin
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