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Topic Options #124836 - 03/08/04 11:45 AM laconic wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Wordsmith likes this word so well it has been Today's Word three times. Date: Wed Jun 6 00:53:11 EDT 2001 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--laconic laconic (luh-KON-ik) adjective Sparing with words, concise, terse. [From Latin Laconicus, from Greek Lakonikos, from Lakon, Laconian, a resident of Laconia, an ancient country in southern Greece (Capital: Sparta). From the the reputation of the Laconians for terseness.] The first Latin book I had told about a Persian envoy trying to intimidate the Spartans by saying: "When our archers shoot their arrows, the sun will be blotted out." The Spartan replied: "Good. We will fight in the shade." On another occasion, the Persian envoy delivered a theat about what would happen if Persia invaded Sparta. The Spartan king replied: "If." Top #169911 - 09/10/07 05:14 AM Re: laconic [Re: wwh] Story Ward stranger Registered: 09/10/07 Posts: 1 Loc: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Am reading Paul Cartledge's The Spartans; I love the "if." Thanks for an early morning chuckle. Top #169933 - 09/10/07 07:18 PM Re: laconic [Re: Story Ward] Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2064 Loc: British Columbia, Canada Welcome aboard, Story. Top #169946 - 09/11/07 11:49 AM Re: laconic [Re: Zed] AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6489 Loc: lower upstate New York Hi, Story and welcome How on earth did you manage to find such an old post by our dear and sadly departed friend? Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 7256 Members 16 Forums 12812 Topics 189744 Posts Max Online: 853 @ 10/23/07 11:39 AM Who's Online 2 registered (Faldage, twosleepy), 8 Guests and 38 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Newest Members Alan, jincy crow, aml, Goodspeaker, W1343 7256 Registered Users Top Posters wwh 13858 Faldage 12532 Jackie 10392 tsuwm 9577 Buffalo Shrdlu 6690 AnnaStrophic 6489 Wordwind 6296 of troy 5400 maverick 4683 WhitmanO'Neill 4189 March Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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