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Antonia Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Tnuth?

I guess 'tnuth' is a kind of sound, meaning 'no'. Am I right?
This is the context:

His answer was the tnuth. 'I don't know.'
  

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Are you sure it is not a typo, Antonia? Like in truth?

  • Are you sure it is not a typo, Antonia?
  • Like in truth?
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8 Answers
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Are you sure it is not a typo, Antonia? Like in truth?
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Has to be a typo for truth.
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I wish..
I'm not sure, I have a book here, and I don't know. Having the context in mind, it is possible.But, if you two are native speakers and if you have never heard of this, I guess it has to be a typo.
Thanks, that's a relief! I was wondering how to translate this.
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I'm not a native speaker, Antonia. But even in my wildest fantasy, this looks no more real than a new character in Shrek 3...
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If you want another native speaker's oppinion, I agree - it has to be a typo. "Speak the truth" is a pretty common expression. "tn" is not even a combination of consonants that can be pronounced in English. (Okay, maybe I'll be deluged with examples of perfectly common "tn" words - but I sure can't think of any, except maybe for compound words where the "t" and the "n" would belong to different
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Much as I like 'tnuth', I feel compelled to agree. It's a tyop.

Quite surprising, when you consider how far 'n' is from 'r' on the keyboard. Yet it's quite a common google.

Perhaps a handwritten 'r' sometimes resembles an 'n'.

MrP
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I've considered the distance too, and that's what made me think that perhaps it can be some kind of utterance meaning sth. Whatever!
Thank you all
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Even so, it's very hard to pronounce!

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