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Re:Near-Collapse of ZTE May Be China’s Sputnik Moment by chrisweekly on Monday June 11, 2018 @07:32AM (#17283405)
Complete tangent, but in case someone else gets a chuckle out of it: the word "fabrication" means "creation"... but also serves as a synonym for "falsehood", almost an antonym in some contexts. I'm not aware of many words in English that can mean both a thing and its opposite. "Cleave" means to bind together, or to completely separate... Any language geeks out there know of others? Or what such words are called?
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Re:Near-Collapse of ZTE May Be China’s Sputnik Moment by smolder on Monday June 11, 2018 @08:38AM (#17283706)
My feeling is that "lie" and "creation" go together. Similar to "he made that up". Something is a fabrication (in the lie sense) when it's created by the person saying it and not drawn from evidence or observation.
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Re:Near-Collapse of ZTE May Be China’s Sputnik Moment by rrmm on Monday June 11, 2018 @08:04AM (#17283544)
auto-antonyms.
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Re:Near-Collapse of ZTE May Be China’s Sputnik Moment by chrisweekly on Monday June 11, 2018 @11:17PM (#17290467)
bingo! thanks :)
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