And by your logic only one kindle exists.

Everyone please shut up.

Weird, comment I was lambasting has disappeared. Oh well, it applies to most of the rest of you freaks.

Um, wrong. The only thing goofier than the idea of peeling your eyes (which merely means to keep your eyes open in the expression) is the idea of your eyes making loud noises.

I understand why people are stupid. I'm stupid about a lot of stuff. But I'll never get why people so often feel most confident about the things they're stupid about.

the "attractant"?

Jesus, shut up, it's just a phone.

"gets official," no more, please!

please, no more "gets official," i'm begging you!

Keith, I hate to break this to you and I'm sure you'll deny this to the bitter end, but laconic, like terse, does not have a negative connotation.

"My friend: I have 2 degrees from ivy-league schools. I am a grammar Nazi. I am the guy that calls people on their mis-use of the language. The way that word is used here is outdated and no longer used. Sorry if that's hard for you to accept, but it's the truth."

To put it tersely: You are an idiot.

To be less terse: That's what's truly difficult for one of us to accept. Terse means brief. The only way it acquires a negative connotation is in context. (See, e.g., "To put it tersely: You are an idiot.") The word itself means brief. It means brief throughout the English-speaking world today. Perhaps one day there will be enough like-minded idiots who think the word carries an inherent negative connotation. When that glorious age arrives, dictionaries abandon their anachronisms and victory will be yours. But until then, you're just a guy with 2 ivy-league degrees who doesn't know what the word "terse" means.

"Use of terse in a neutral of positive way is not common in the English-speaking world, at least not in North America and, to the best of my knowledge, England. It just isn't. It doesn't matter what that dictionary says."

it doesn't matter what the dictionary says, not bad. there's nothing more painful to watch than someone who can't back down from the wrong side of an argument. it's called "perverse." look it up in the dictionary, which of course doesn't matter.