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[pasithea]

Hey! I found biblical reference for the University of Art Academy!

took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold

See! Talent is money and as long as they think you have money, they'll tell you you have talent!

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From Apple's dictionary application:

talent |ˈtalənt| |ˌtølənt| |ˌtalənt|

noun

1 natural aptitude or skill : he possesses more talent than any other player | she displayed a talent for garden design.

• people possessing such aptitude or skill : I signed all the talent in Rome | Simon is a talent to watch.

• informal: people regarded as sexually attractive or as prospective sexual partners : most Saturday nights I have this urge to go on the hunt for new talent.

2 a former weight and unit of currency, used esp. by the ancient Romans and Greeks.

DERIVATIVES

talentless |ˌtøləntləs| adjective

ORIGIN Old English talente, talentan (as a unit of weight), from Latin talenta, plural of talentum ‘weight, sum of money,’ from Greek talanton. Sense 1 is a figurative use with biblical allusion to the parable of the talents (Matt. 25:14–30).