<div dir="auto">Dear Christian, speaking of idiolects -- at different sociolinguistic layers-- the first Ital. equivalent of "'mentire'', to lie, that comes to my mind is 'raccontar balle'. At the present moment I have no dictionaries at my disposal, but I am sure that there other idioms too. All languages have certainly particular ways of expressing the notion, according to their specific historical culture. <div dir="auto">Happy New Year😀😃🙂</div><div dir="auto">Paolo <br><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il Dom 1 Gen 2023, 20:03 Christian Lehmann <<a href="mailto:christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Dear Masha,</p>
<p>I assume you know</p>
<p>Coleman, Linda & Kay, Paul 1981, "Prototype semantics: the
English word lie". <i>Language</i> 57:26-44.</p>
<p>One approach (which you have certainly thought of, too) is to
consult dictionaries of synonyms. For instance,</p>
<p><a href="https://www.freethesaurus.com/lie" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.freethesaurus.com/lie</a></p>
<p>gives you 15 (near) synonyms of English <i>lie</i>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.openthesaurus.de/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openthesaurus.de/</a></p>
<p>gives you the same number for German. I am sure sociolects are
rich in words meaning 'lie'. The one current in my youth (<i>schocken</i>)
is not even listed by the openthesaurus.<br>
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<p>All the best at least for this year,</p>
<p>Christian</p>
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