This essay is an attempt to study the natural tendency of language to lie, and what it does to human interaction. I believe that we "colour" the "truth" in every occasion. One of the reasons for this is the referred natural tendency of language, others are social and psychological. In a way it is very human, it is something that our vigorous imagination forces us to do. One thing must be made clear: I do not consider this sort of lying to be in its own right bad nor good; it just is. I am not judging. I am just barely thinking, playing with thoughts and most of all trying to understand the things I see. The purpose of this essay is merely to give "braincrub", food for thought, no answers or conclusions shall be given. The only advice I have for reading is to keep an open mind, do not try to find mistakes and/or illogical thought tracks. Try to get in the good stuff. This is not an easy task I am giving myself, try to comprehend.1.1 Something about the difficulties in defining a lie This is a definition from the Merriam-Webster on-line thesaurus on the verb "lie" 1 : to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive 2 : to create a false or misleading impression transitive senses : to bring about by telling lies "lied his way out of trouble". It would be easy to say a lie is something that is not true, but this would demand the definition of truth. A more adequate definition might be that a lie is something that is said with the knowledge of some other facts relative to issue at hand. But this would result as everything being a lie, because there is always something that isn't said. I am not going to go on further, this was just to give an idea how difficult it actually is to define a lie. 2.0 About language & thoughtAlthough not being necessarily the main point of this essay these issues have to be dealt with as grounds for further discussion, for a possibility of understanding .It often happens to me (and probably others, but I can...
