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by Ueland 1597 days ago
What is your point with posting a comment containing just a single word? Like, really? What do you hope to achieve with that "comment"?
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Not saying this is the case here, but there is at least a historical precedent from WW2, for the one word reply:

"[McAuliffe] is celebrated for his one-word reply to a German surrender ultimatum: "Nuts!" [1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_McAuliffe#%22NUTS!%22

Ha, I did not know this one. What came to my mind was https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/le_mot_de_Cambronne . The idea is the same.