I am Italian and I live in Cyprus, ex colony, a place where the English is amost motherlanguage, and I always think to this.

Yes, English speaking people don't arrive to understand that beeing short is not always a quality, specially if you have history, literature and beauty in your language.

We like ourselves, we like our speeches, we alsways learn something about language from ohers. Why to be short?

That's why we have quality wines and we don't get drunk so often.