pauciloquent - adj. - (British English) - using few words to express oneself
Pauciloquy or to be pauciloquent is somewhat rare today as everyone has an opinion and expresses it generously. My mother, a prescient astrologer who was anachronistic in many ways, was not pauciloquent by any means. However, in between subjective recapitulations, she would on occasion utter something entirely objective and profound albeit borrowed, such as the aphorism, "Less is more." Does the listener tend to pay more attention to the pauciloquent friend who edits before expounding? Who says more in one sentence than most can in a few paragraphs? Probably. After all, few have much of an attention span these days.
But let's go back two thousand years or so. On the Christian calendar today is marked as Good Friday, the day the Romans crucified a prophetic man named Jesus. Before his execution, the Romans gave him their version of due process, putting him on trial. Pilate interrogated him. Jesus, the man who chose to teach using esoteric parables, decided to maintain pauciloquent, answering Pilate's questions succinctly and eventually accepting his cruel and unusual fate. Among his other miracles, today Jesus is remembered for his economy of words, a.k.a. pauciloquy.
In certain situations, less is definitely more.
Peace be with you.
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