Today's Daily Quiz: July 17, 2007
America! Congress needs YOUR help! Without resorting to obscenity or any term that could be contested on procedural grounds, what's another way to say "liar" without using the word "liar"?
Today's DQ courtesy of pinko
posted by Virt at 12:40 AM
8 Comments:
from Gulliver's Travels :
. . . the Houyhnhnms have an orderly and peaceful society. They possess philosophy and have a language that is entirely pure of political and ethical nonsense. They possess, for example, no word for a lie (and must substitute a phrase — to say a thing which is not).
~ Sean
How about perjure? Telling known untruths in a State of the Union might be considered perjury, or at least a breach of the article in the Constitution that requires the President to report on the state of the nation.
Pinnochio inclined?
to Bush -- lie
to Cheney -- defy
Yes, I agree, the use of the word "liars" is so oldspeak. How about this in the spirit of Orwell who coined the doublegood term blackwhite (the habit of claiming black is white in contradiction of known facts):
Blackwhiter? Untruther?
In the spirit of "decider","suicider" and to add to Joe's Orwellian doublespeak: veracity depriver; antihonester.
This would call our leader what he really is - a misleader.
I like "Misleader".
Sean said -
yes to "mis-leader"
it is a brilliant term
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