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Review title: Well, it had to happen....
Product review: Twenty years ago I bought this book (7th edition) when I arrived as a foreign exchange student to study in the US.I vividly remember the joy of finding a bounty of precise and clear definitions in thisfantastic book. I even copied a number of them out by hand and pinned them up on wardrobe, and I was a science major!For example, I remembered the definition of "concise: "brief but comprehensive in expression". How couldyou say it any better.Well twenty years later, I proudly buy the current edition for my young son, hoping to pass on this joy.And boy, did they dumb everything down into oblivion. This stinker of a dictionary is now fullof trivialities and consciously low-brow wordings. The new entry for "concise"? It says "using few words".The only reason I give it two stars instead of one is that none of the other dictionaries I looked at were any better; seemsto be a lost cause.
