tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269664.post116491009056830619..comments2023-07-15T10:21:22.762-04:00Comments on Bloggin' Ryan: No, I'm not dead.Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032222567227472257noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269664.post-1164914631717083182006-11-30T14:23:00.000-05:002006-11-30T14:23:00.000-05:00seems to me that the reason there is no verb for "...seems to me that the reason there is no verb for "to tell the truth" is the same reason there was no word for religious "belief" in ancient hebrew - there just isn't a need for it. telling the truth is just the absence of lying. it's what is, so there isn't a need to qualify it with a verb. as with the hebrew example i gave - no one *didn't* believe. you were either jew or gentile. there was no such thing as a non-believing jew, so there wasn't a word for to believe. it's possibleHollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12312891833619993019noreply@blogger.com