Timeline for Opposite: "Truer words were never spoken"
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| May 9, 2020 at 14:25 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | @Nosajimiki Speaking of funny, I enjoyed your profile. For some reason, it reminded me of this Nietzsche aphorism: What? Is man just God's mistake? Or is God just man's mistake? [TI Arrows 9, Cambridge] | |
| May 9, 2020 at 14:12 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | @Nosajimiki I'm glad I made you laugh. I LOLed myself. :-) I was simply trying to craft the opposite of Truer words were never spoken, not seeking logical consistency.That said, one might argue that (1) at least some non-words can be spoken, e.g., it's not hard to "say" garpaptic, and (2) a bigger problem concerns the characterization of given string of non-words as truer or falser than other possible strings of non-words. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 18:33 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | I did not downvote (only because it made me laugh), but the OP asked for "the opposite of the phrase" meaning they want a word or phrase that has the opposite meaning of those words when treated as a singular idea. Because non-words are unspoken, and the target of your remark has spoken, you are acknowledging that "falser" does not apply here one way or the other; so, it's not really the opposite. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 16:44 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | Re downvote: Someone has zero or maybe even a negative sense of humor. :-) I answered the question exactly as posed. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 13:48 | history | edited | Richard Kayser | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 7, 2020 at 13:44 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | @Nosajimiki Thanks. According to M-W, unspoken means "not spoken : expressed or understood without being directly stated," e.g., an unspoken agreement/assumption, an unspoken rule. So in one sense unspoken still implies expressed, which I was trying to avoid. Still, unspoken could simply mean not spoken, so I've added it as a possibility. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 13:15 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | non-spoken -> unspoken. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 2:31 | history | edited | Richard Kayser | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 7, 2020 at 1:44 | history | answered | Richard Kayser | CC BY-SA 4.0 |