Re: 2704 lujvo in the jvoste

[Nick Nicholas <nsn@MULLIAN.EE.MU.OZ.AU>]

To Logical Language Group respond I thus:

#why not just jifsku or ticysku, or best: all three and give whatever semantic
#differences are implied by each, since each will probably cover a different
#mapping of the semantic space covered by English "lie"

All three of them, of course, do cover that space; but saying something both
untruthful and with the intent to deceive is the more prototypical instance
of a lie. Leaving either out gives you the grey area of the law ---
equivocation for ticysku, telling untruths (and possibly believing them) for
jifsku. ticyjifsku is 'real' lying.

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