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A laconic phrase or laconism is a concise or terse statement, especially a blunt and elliptical rejoinder. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is named after Laconia , the region of Greece including the city of Sparta , whose ancient inhabitants had a reputation for verbal austerity and were famous for their often pithy remarks.
Still, the magazine acknowledged the 2017 purge and stated that their findings didn't represent "a direct Elsagate repeat", noting that these videos were not on YouTube Kids, that much of their shocking content was limited to the thumbnails only, and that many of the more obvious ways of targeting children had been challenged by the purge. [7]
Laconic speech may mean: alogia - a thought impoverishment observable through speech and language use laconic phrase - a concise or terse statement, especially a blunt and elliptical rejoinder
Hui proposes that aphorisms often arrive before, after, or in response to more systematic argumentative philosophy. [2] For example, aphorisms may come before a systematic philosophy, because the systematic philosophy consists of the attempt to interpret and explain the aphorisms, as he argues is the case with Confucianism.
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An example or two here would be fine, but this is crazy. And, yeah, some of the examples are not all that great - there's supposed to be a pithiness to the phrase as well as brevity. I'll see if I can get to it tonight. Matt Deres 16:28, 18 May 2010 (UTC) This article could certainly be made a bit more. . . wait for it. . . laconic!
[20] [21] [22] Tabenkin, for example, a founding father of the Kibbutz and the Palmach, was greatly influenced by ancient Sparta. He prescribed that "fighters' education should begin from the nursery", that children should from kindergarten age be taken to "spend nights in the mountains and valleys", taught to fight, and educated for war.
The term deadpan first emerged early in the 20th century, as a compound word (sometimes spelled as two words) combining "dead" and "pan" (a slang term for the face). It appeared in print as early as 1915, in an article about a former baseball player named Gene Woodburn written by his former manager Roger Bresnahan.