More LIES!!! - English vocabulary about Lying

More lies!

So you've learned how to say "You're lying!", "I don't believe you", and

also how to try to convince someone that you're telling the truth

But what do you call someone who lies all the time?

These are some nouns that you can use

If someone lies all the time you can call them "a liar"

Now remember that most British accents are non-rhotic, so that "R" won't be super pronounced

it will sound like "liar" "a liar"

In most American accents however, it's rhotic, so that "R" will be quite pronounced for example "liar" "liar"

That's someone who lies in general, but let's get more specific

What about a person who lies in order to steal money?

Think business people. When someone lies for financial gain

you can say this

"Fraud", "a fraud" you could also say "conman" but that's just for men

The gender-neutral version of this is a "con artist" a con artist

Or another interesting thing you could call someone is this

A "snake oil salesman", or more commonly you just say they're selling snake oil

Now this is fun because it's also a bit of history

Many years ago people would travel across the country

selling these little things of snake oil they would sell it as a medicine to cure

all disease and everything that was wrong with people

From headaches, colds, flu. I shit you not even deafness

Of course it was bollocks. It wasn't real medicine, it didn't work.

So even nowadays when someone tries to sell you an idea

or a product or specifically a medicine that they claim will change your life

will cure everything but it sounds like bullshit

You will say they are selling snake oil. A product which doesn't work

That's for people who lie

How about people who tell the truth?

When someone always tells of the truth, or most of the time tells the truth

You can use these adjectives

to talk about that person

You can say she or he is... because they're adjectives,

She is honest, trustworthy, or reliable

Be careful of the pronunciation with this one, the H is silent.

So honest

Not honest

No

Honest

Be careful with the stress in the words too

Honest

Trustworthy

Reliable

Now you've learned how to say "You're lying!" by saying

"That's bollocks!"

But how can you say the type of lie that person is telling?

Not all lies are the same

When someone is talking about the size or the amount of something

and they want to say "It's this much"

When in reality it's only this much

The verb is:

To exaggerate

So when your friend is talking about the size of his...

...FISH that he caught

and he's saying "Yeah it's this big!"

You know in reality it's only this big

so you can say

"I think you're exaggerating!"

This next type of lie has to do with attraction and love

This next lie is about making someone believe that you're attracted to them or maybe even in love with them

But that's a lie

maybe in order to get something from that person

The verb for this type of lie is: "Lead on"

To lead someone on

So she could say in a past tense

"Oh my god..

said that he loved me

But that was a lie

He

"He led me on"

Just don't lead people on, it's not nice!

But are all lies bad?

I would have to say no, especially in this case

For example: If you've had a long day at work and no sleep

and you come home like "ah! I look like a zombie I'm so tired!"

and she wants to make you feel good!

She's not gonna say "Yeah you look awful!"

No, she's not going to hurt your feelings because she's a good friend

and she will say "No you don't look tired at all!"

This type of lie is harmless it's in order to not hurt the person's feelings

The name of this lie is a "white lie" or a "little white lie"

Now be careful, this is not used as a verb,

You won't say for example "I white lied"

You don't say it like a verb

this is only a noun

To say it like a verb, you need to say

"He said he looked tired, so I told a white lie, I said he looked great!"

I don't think this situation would happen but let's imagine...

Maybe someone wants to rob you and they're saying

"Give me your money, or I'll shoot this very cute dog!"

When someone makes a threat that you don't believe is actually going to happen

or when someone claims to have power that you don't think they actually have

This type of lie is called...

"a bluff"

"Bluff" is a verb and a noun

Here for example he's saying: "You're bluffing,

I don't believe you will do what you say you will do in that threat"

Of course he's not going to kill the dog, look at this little face!

This is the same type of lie as in poker

When you want to pretend like you have really high cards but really have nothing!

It's "a bluff", or "you're bluffing"

If you haven't already, make sure you see the previous video!

Where I show you how to say "I think you're lying!"

"You're definitely lying!"

Or how to try to convince someone that you're being honest!

that you're telling the truth

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