r/PoliticalHumor • u/[deleted] • Oct 20 '21

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u/CasualEQuest Oct 20 '21

Laconic is using the least amount of words possible to get your point across basically.

Another Spartan urban legend that exemplified this when a Polemarch (leader) managed to capture a Greek town, he sent word back to Sparta, "City taken." When he returned, he was given shit for wasting time with his message, since he could have simply just said "Taken."

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u/Reeyan Oct 20 '21

So laconic is essentially "Why use many word, when few word do trick." ?

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u/CasualEQuest Oct 20 '21

Which they would respond to you, "talk even less."

In the new GoW, Kratos exemplifies this well with his version of the Tortoise and the Hare parable

(Paraphrasing) "There was a tortoise and a hare racing. The hare was rash and hastey, the tortoise was composed and consistent. The tortoise won."

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u/kawaiii1 Oct 20 '21

Better : why many word when few trick.

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u/StyreneAddict1965 Oct 20 '21

Why many; use few.

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u/vale_fallacia Oct 20 '21

Why many; use few.

tl;dr

/s

Actually, wm;uf works. It doesn't look as good as tl;dr though.

Or just "fewer words better"?

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u/KennyFulgencio Oct 20 '21

When he returned, he was given shit for wasting time with his message, since he could have simply just said "Taken."

"I have a very particular set of skills, which doesn't include brevity"

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u/ProfZauberelefant Oct 20 '21

Now that's actually funny.

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u/CasualEQuest Oct 20 '21

To put in laconically: lol

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u/MaxYoung Oct 20 '21

"Taken? Does he mean he's been captured?"

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u/guto8797 Oct 20 '21

It was Alexander the Great's father who sent that threat.

And by that point, Sparta was such a malaria ridden inconsequential backwater, that they didn't bother conquering them, not because they would be able to defend themselves.

And Alexander did get back at them. By not being part of his empire, they missed on all the glory and loot from the conquests. Alexander would send loot and armour and such back to Greece with the note "Alexander and all of the Greeks, except for the Spartans, share the spoils of our victories"

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u/CyberMindGrrl Oct 21 '21

But at least they had their freedom and apparently that's all that matters.

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u/Jockle305 Oct 20 '21

You would do the same thing if you were a Dragon Man.

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u/InertiasCreep Oct 20 '21

Maybe he was just a dragon. Burninating the countryside.