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Mimi Kusch's avatar

I use dearth, challenge, and ubiquitous in conversation all the time! So there, Smart Brevity peeps!

(And I wonder which guy you're referring to . . . :-) )

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Rafael Olivas's avatar

Another perspective from Ludwig Wittgenstein, who managed (probably) to say most of what needs to be said about "language" and "brevity" by barely saying anything:

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”

“Only describe, don't explain.”

and the extraordinarily potent, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

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