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Or are we dancers?

 

Its DANCER, singular, and the only thing that song has going for it is that it sends the baby to sleep when he's giving it some.

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Initially there was confusion and debate over the line "Are we human, or are we dancer?" in the song's chorus.Debate raged across the internet over whether the lyrics said "denser" or "dancer", a misunderstanding which invoked conflicting interpretations of the song's meaning.

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dense

 

speaker.gif /dɛns/ dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif Show Spelled Pronunciation [dens] dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif Show IPA Use denser in a Sentence

 

–adjective, dens⋅er, dens⋅est. 1. having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest; dense population. 2. stupid; slow-witted; dull. 3. intense; extreme: dense ignorance. 4. relatively opaque; transmitting little light, as a photographic negative, optical glass, or color. 5. difficult to understand or follow because of being closely packed with ideas or complexities of style: a dense philosophical essay. 6. Mathematics. of or pertaining to a subset of a topological space in which every neighborhood of every point in the space contains at least one point of the subset.

 

Origin:

1590–1600;

 

Related forms:

densely, adverb

denseness, noun

 

Synonyms:

1. congested, crammed, teeming; impenetrable.

 

We were all stupid for thinking it was 'dancer' when the song makes so much more sense when it's 'denser'.

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dense

 

speaker.gif /dɛns/ dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif Show Spelled Pronunciation [dens] dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif Show IPA Use denser in a Sentence

 

–adjective, dens⋅er, dens⋅est. 1. having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest; dense population. 2. stupid; slow-witted; dull. 3. intense; extreme: dense ignorance. 4. relatively opaque; transmitting little light, as a photographic negative, optical glass, or color. 5. difficult to understand or follow because of being closely packed with ideas or complexities of style: a dense philosophical essay. 6. Mathematics. of or pertaining to a subset of a topological space in which every neighborhood of every point in the space contains at least one point of the subset.

 

Origin:

1590–1600;

 

Related forms:

densely, adverb

denseness, noun

 

Synonyms:

1. congested, crammed, teeming; impenetrable.

 

We were all stupid for thinking it was 'dancer' when the song makes so much more sense when it's 'denser'.

 

Whats the point ?? Its dancer ??

 

And if you cared to scroll down from the same Wikipedia page you linked from in an earlier post you would have seen this

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Shall we quote the writer?

 

According to Flowers, the “dancer” line was inspired by literary enfant terrible Hunter S. Thompson. “It’s taken from a quote by Thompson – ‘We’re raising a generation of dancers’ – and I took it and ran. I guess it bothers people that it’s not grammatically correct, but I think I’m allowed to do whatever I want.”
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