Timeline for An English word for deception without telling a lie?
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| Apr 6, 2018 at 15:07 | comment | added | Zebrafish | @user69786 That's a good point. And nothing wrong with metaphors, just in my opinion the metaphor for two of them was stretching things a bit far. As far as single-word-requests go, I've seen unpredictably differing levels of reactions to conforming to this requirement. The idea behind single-word-requests is that they provide a sentence for us to go on. And they provided 5. As you said it's tricky. | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 11:18 | comment | added | Michael Rybkin | It's quite clear from the OP's question that by word they mean anything that would work in the context they provided. You can see that there is even an expression among the solutions they originally came up with: pull a fast one. And what's wrong with using metaphors? | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 9:35 | comment | added | Zebrafish | @as4s4hetic Not really, the answerer has already admitted that in at least two of the examples their solution has to be used as a metaphor (at quite a stretch in my opinion), and isn't a single word. Also in at least two other of the examples the term may have to be used metaphorically, eg., a written or printed number appearing ambiguous has nothing to do with "fine print" literally. Not trying to start an argument, just saying what I think are facts. | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 9:21 | comment | added | Michael Rybkin | @Zebrafish It doesn't if you don't know how to use metaphors in your writing. As I already said this one is tricky. | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 9:16 | comment | added | Zebrafish | "fine print" doesn't fit his scientist example and politician example. | |
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| Apr 6, 2018 at 8:09 | history | edited | Michael Rybkin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2018 at 7:54 | history | edited | Michael Rybkin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2018 at 7:43 | history | answered | Michael Rybkin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |