Word For The Day, Thursday, July 3, 2008 - laconic

dictionaries ad nauseum, internet | 3 July 2008 | secret garden

[secret garden]

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

laconic \luh-KON-ik\, adjective
Using or marked by the use of a minimum of words; brief and pithy; brusque.

Example sentences:
Readers' reports range from the laconic to the verbose.
-- Bernard Stamler, "A Brooklyncentric View of Life", New York Times, February 28, 1999

In the laconic language of the sheriff department's report,there was "no visible sign of life."
-- David Wise, Cassidy's Run

There was one tiny photograph of him at a YMCA camp plus a few laconic and uninformative entries in a soldier's log from the war year, 1917-18.
-- Edward W. Said, Out of Place: A Memoir

Etymology:
Laconic comes, via Latin, from Greek Lakonikos, "of or relating to a Laconian or Spartan," hence "terse," in the manner of the Laconians.

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!

[secret garden]

Rise and shine!

[CholeraJoe]

[secret garden]

Those kitties crack me up.

[CholeraJoe]

Anyone speak German?

Obama issues new call for national service

[tioga]

I will be laconic.......bouncing the baby is SICK!

[secret garden]

Work frees?

[CholeraJoe]

Work Makes You Free. The slogan over the gates at Auschwitz.

[secret garden]

A+ for you, F- for youtube and that idiot.

[theDentist]

here

is that laconic enough for you?

[CholeraJoe]

secret left me the grade book but not the Third Place ribbon. A+ anyway.

[secret garden]

Okay kids. now I'm out the door. Take it, Ceej!

[theDentist]

The Obama sloganeering are laconic ideas presented to a constituency of simple-minded dullards, old enough to cast a vote, but too dim to recognize there are devils in the details of his “Change” sloganeering. It’s a bumper-sticker candidacy in a nation of immediate gratification.

[CholeraJoe]

You forgot to turn off the webcam. tD and I enjoyed watching you change into your jogging outfit.

[ConorMacNessa]

Few men can match the laconic eloquence of Gen. Anthony McAullife in response to the German surrender demand at Bastogne: “Nuts!”

[CholeraJoe]

A+ for you Conor!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

McCain doesn’t brag, he’s laconic
But I hope that this doesn’t stay chronic
He invented the surge
Now he needs a good purge
To wake up; he should try a colonic

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Work Makes You Free.

Then what does Truth do? I really don't want to change my screen name.

[CholeraJoe]

A++. Good one, Truthy!

[CholeraJoe]

I wouldn't advise changing your screen name. Hopefully Obama, the Mugabe look alike and Hitler wannabe won't be elected.

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[NeoCaveman]

Fred ran a race so laconic,
It left us with choices, idiotic
Our choices stink
Which gets me to think
The body politic needs a colonic.

[NeoCaveman]

I swear I hadn’t read your homework before I posted mine.

[NeoCaveman]

Yup, “agrarian reform” will be a real beast.

[CholeraJoe]

Just an A, neo.

[VRWCmember]

Barry Hussein Obama will try to remain laconic on the Reparations Issue lest he tip his hand to the voters and lose support in the election.

[NeoCaveman]

[NeoCaveman]

Just an A, neo.

Teacher SG, he's grading without a license.

[CholeraJoe]

Subbing for secret. A++.

[CholeraJoe]

Secret went jogging and left me in charge. Party Time!

[tioga]

it's only Thursday!

why isn't this durham satonic sex scandal making national news? it's DEMONcrats involved...

[NeoCaveman]

When a national holiday falls on a Friday, the preceding day becomes an honorary Friday.

[VRWCmember]

TGIF??

Sorry Honey, It's Thursday!

[VRWCmember]

OK, it’s Virtual Friday then. I get a Virtual Friday every other week, but since my “Off-Friday” was last week and next week, I have three Virtual Friday’s on Thursday in a row.

[VRWCmember]

TGIVF??

So Happy It's Thursday!

[CholeraJoe]

Lucky just put up the Friday silliness thread, too.

[sionnsar]

Ummm...

[CholeraJoe]

I’m subbing while secret jogs. That’s pretty laconic. A for you.

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

Gee, I always thought it was more fun to layspherics rather than to layconics.

(Note to self: Remind Robt to check with St Ronnie about her opinion.....)

[secret garden]

Once a perv, always a perv...the weather was great for running this morning.

[secret garden]

Excellent usage!

[secret garden]

My spam list is always chock full of colonic aids. A+ for you.

[secret garden]

I’m sensing an intestinal theme here today. A+ anyway.

[NeoCaveman]

Thanks!

[secret garden]

He’ll need to take a stand, sooner or later. I hope it’s sooner. A+ for you.

[secret garden]

:-) I have to agree with CJ. A for you.

[xsmommy]

back from the grocery store.

[leda]

Laconic is not a word I would use to describe Mr. Patton. ;)

[xsmommy]

Great day in Colombia yesterday! i read Ingrid Betancourt's book several years before she was captured. it was a risk she knew she lived with, but man alive, that must have been rough.

[secret garden]

I need to do that today for tomorrow’s cookout. I hope it doesn’t rain.

[secret garden]

St. Ronnie owes you a beating. ;)