Today’s Podcast

Today’s word can be found in a recent post at BoingBoing.com. The word is laconic and it is used to describe the voice of the narrator used in many of Walt Disney’s promotional movies in the 1950’s.

Laconic is an adjective and it is used to describe concise speech. In some cases in can mean rude or curt but usually it just describes an economy of words, brevity. The word originates from the Greek state of Laconia, an ancient state famous for its capital city, Sparta and its reputation for terseness of speech. It is not hard to see a relationship between the word laconic and the word spartan.

I value your time as a listener so I try to produce laconic podcasts.

A side note: I am surprised at the amount of coverage of Hunter S. Thompson’s death. I didn’t think his passing would be such a hot topic in the mainstream media.