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Need a new word
15 years ago
We need a new word.
We have imply - "to indicate without explicitly stating", and infer - "to deduce from evidence rather than from explicit statements". We have volunteer, and the slang "voluntold" (highly useful)
But we need a word that describes the act of saying things in a way that you allow people to assume something you know to be untrue. For example, if you say something like "well, when I was driving the BMW.." when you mean you were driving a car that a friend who owns a BMW let you drive, but you want everybody to assume you own one, or "Ya, I'm going out with Alison tomorrow" when you mean that you are giving Alison a lift to the train station but you want everyone to assume you are dating her. They are not lies, but they lead people to believe the untrue.
I have no ideas for the word, just the knowledge that we need one. "to imply in the manner that you state something explicitly, a falsehood that you invite others to infer"
We have imply - "to indicate without explicitly stating", and infer - "to deduce from evidence rather than from explicit statements". We have volunteer, and the slang "voluntold" (highly useful)
But we need a word that describes the act of saying things in a way that you allow people to assume something you know to be untrue. For example, if you say something like "well, when I was driving the BMW.." when you mean you were driving a car that a friend who owns a BMW let you drive, but you want everybody to assume you own one, or "Ya, I'm going out with Alison tomorrow" when you mean that you are giving Alison a lift to the train station but you want everyone to assume you are dating her. They are not lies, but they lead people to believe the untrue.
I have no ideas for the word, just the knowledge that we need one. "to imply in the manner that you state something explicitly, a falsehood that you invite others to infer"
In a similar vein... how about 'to aberdyfi'? Or 'much wenlock', as in, "Jim's been talking so much wenlock lately'. There's a possible adjective, 'shifnal': "All sounds a bit shifnal to me." Or, even, 'up sydling', which of course gives us its verbal form, "to upsydle"...
false sylogism
false conclusion
Something along that line of thinking?
Infernalization. The recipient infers while the speaker keeps the truth internal. And it's a mildly infernal practice, at that. :)