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From
17/10/2001 13:08:05
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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17/10/2001 12:07:31
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Forum:
Politics
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00560873
Message ID:
00569732
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>>>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?
>
>Hey Dragan, even laconica brevitas seems to be saying too much!
>
>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"?

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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