who need to learn the word "laconic"

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Laconic but they should be pithy, concise and blunt .... simultaneously and at the same time.

Thank you

...I do tend to be wordy.

It's the Chronic, Laconic. Ironic, eh?

Get a Colonic, Laconic. Ironic, how Chronic can make you Moronic or even, yes...

You need chronic, Laconic, how ironic and euphonic. Ok that last one was Moronic.

It's 4:20 in Chicago!!! (am that is)
Whoooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Per chance my terse brevity fell not on deaf ears?

ok

Just my opinion...
B

lets start on didactic.  Then perhaps on redundancy

but just because I know the definition of a word doesn't mean I must become it (like I know what homicidal and necrophilia mean too but I ain't gonna do either)....anyway I like the words "prolix", "tautological" and "pleonastic" better.  *smirk* I think maybe it's my appreciation of Russian literature that has influenced me. *grin*

-- Modified on 11/27/2005 8:49:46 AM

It's not the same as writing for publication here.  It's a conversation unrestrained by rhythm, where everybody has as much time as they want to say what they mean.  

That might not be your style.

juggernaut, immutable, phlegmatic, vagal, inexorable, atavism, vacuous, isipid and many many others.... ain't language fun!

Tee hee.

mean the same thing, you have fallen on your own sword. The last thing this board needs is a "thought senate..." When we go around trying to legislate what others may be thinking or wanting to express, we might as well take history back just a few years as see how popular that will be. As with television, change the channel (don't read long posts).

are similar but not exclusively synonymous I would say you are in fact acting as a "thought senate" (an amusing metaphor I must admit) for wanting to police my sentiment for concise posts. The last thing I wish to see on this board is censorship of thought or point of view.

-- Modified on 11/27/2005 7:20:36 PM

Lucid,

May I ask you to be a little less laconic for just a moment and further explain to us your reason(s) why exactly we (at least some of us)seem to need this change. I often enjoy reading the more descriptive and/or well developed thought(s) that are posted here.

Not everything around here is quick and easy.  
(hope I was brief and concise enough for everyone)

Here's hoping that your BJs are as good as your quick-witted repartee. Have a great week!

Terse: Brief and to the point; effectively cut short, so your laconic has come full circle.

It is not for critical berating of the author or their thought process. Many of us have concerns of SOs, wives, family or possibly co-workers stumbling upon us while we are engrossed in perusing these long but otherwise compelling posts. Such concerns can often influence the reader to dismiss them altogether effectively shortchanging both reader and author alike. In addition; often due to the multitudes of points raised in such loquacious posts it becomes time prohibitive to compose a thoughtful response.

-- Modified on 11/28/2005 1:17:34 AM

WORD HISTORY   The study of the classics allows one to understand the history of the term laconic, which comes to us via Latin from Greek Lak?nikos. The English word is first recorded in 1583 with the sense “of or relating to Laconia or its inhabitants.” Lak?nikos is derived from Lak?n, “a Laconian, a person from Lacedaemon,” the name for the region of Greece of which Sparta was the capital. The Spartans, noted for being warlike and disciplined, were also known for the brevity of their speech, and it is this quality that English writers still denote by the use of the adjective laconic, which is first found in this sense in 1589.

Like destroying a village to save it, complaining about too many words, etc.