>>>Again, you're missing the point. Your attempts to bring others to your beliefs in a discussion like this is just fine. But if you were teaching in a public school, it would be totally inappropriate since it's not your job there to convert other people's children.
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>>Thanks, Tamar. I've wasted bunch of kilobytes to say exactly that. Where did I lose this
laconica brevitas?
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>Hey Dragan, even
laconica brevitas seems to be saying too much!
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>Laconic, at least in English, does it all by itself.
"Laconica brevitas" was a term used to describe it, as I remember from my Latin class - and of course the description can't be as short as the thing itself.
Was it Voltaire who said "unfortunately, I don't have the time to write it shorter"?