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Truth

Postby Slava » Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:49 am

I can't come up with a verb meaning the opposite of lie, can you? Tell the truth, now. Speak the truth. Be honest. But no one word that's the antithesis to lie.

No, I won't stand for stand. :P
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Re: Truth

Postby bbeeton » Thu Oct 20, 2022 10:50 am

I don't think there's a single word for telling the truth.
The closest I can think of is aver, but that's not exact.

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Re: Truth

Postby David Myer » Mon Oct 31, 2022 6:00 am

Although aver is supposed to mean assert, the ver part is surely related to veracity and truthfulness. So maybe originally...?

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Re: Truth

Postby Slava » Mon Oct 31, 2022 6:11 am

Well, aver has been to the Good Doctor's office twice, here and here, but doesn't quite make it to being simply meaning telling the truth. The frog example seems to indicate it can be falsely used, to aver an untruth.
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Re: Truth

Postby David Myer » Mon Oct 31, 2022 6:47 am

Thanks Slava. I much enjoyed both entries. Whatever happened to MTC and Mark Bailey and the others of those days? I know that Perry Lassiter is no longer with us. But are we all so old that our tenure here is necessarily short?

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Re: Truth

Postby Slava » Mon Oct 31, 2022 8:32 am

Mark Bailey is long gone, but MTC just posted yesterday.

As for length of tenure here, I'm not sure what short would be. I've been haunting the site for 16 years now. :shock:
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Re: Truth

Postby David Myer » Tue Nov 01, 2022 6:30 am

Not surprising, judging by the picture that accompanies your account name!


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