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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.
An effort to unite the most common systems of constructed languages. Lingua sistemfrater: 1957 Pham Xuan Thai: Greco-Latin vocabulary with southeast Asian grammar. Neo: neu 1961 Arturo Alfandari: A very terse Esperantido. Babm: 1962 Rikichi Okamoto: Notable for using Latin letters as a syllabary. Unilingua (now Mirad) 1966 (revised 1967 and ...
"Common" here does not mean "ordinary", but "common to every situation" communibus locis: in common places: A term frequently used among philosophical and other writers, implying some medium, or mean relation between several places; one place with another; on a medium. "Common" here does not mean "ordinary", but "common to every situation"
One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people. Turkish Proverb [5] One year's seeding makes seven years weeding; Only fools and horses work; Open confession is good for the soul. Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door; Other times other manners. Out of sight, out of mind
Burton's translation (The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night 1885–88) enjoyed huge public success but was criticised for its use of archaic language and excessive erotic detail. [14] According to Ulrich Marzolph, as of 2004, Burton's translation remained the most complete version of One Thousand and One Nights in English. [14]
Vincenty's formulae are two related iterative methods used in geodesy to calculate the distance between two points on the surface of a spheroid, developed by Thaddeus Vincenty (1975a). They are based on the assumption that the figure of the Earth is an oblate spheroid, and hence are more accurate than methods that assume a spherical Earth, such ...
Versions of Ithkuil are generally numbered with Roman numerals, e.g. Ithkuil I, Ithkuil II.Despite this, Ithkuil has other names attached to it, either officially named or was named by the Ithkuil-enthusiast community: Ithkuil I version was named as "Iţkuîl" (anglicised: Ithkuil; /ɪθˈkʊ.il/) which became the origin of the name "Ithkuil", Ithkuil II as "ilákš" (anglicised: ilaksh ...
In folklore, the witching hour or devil's hour is a time of night that is associated with supernatural events, whereby witches, demons and ghosts are thought to appear and be at their most powerful. Definitions vary, and include the hour immediately after midnight and the time between 3:00 am and 4:00 am.