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Re: true, honest



--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "Marcos Cramer" <marcos.cramer@...> wrote:
>
> I would suggest "troy" to cover a wide range of meanings like "faithful",
> "loyal", "honest", "sincere" etc. If you want to specify more precisely
> "honest" as in "thruth-telling", you can use "haytroy", can't you.
> 
> I'm not sure whether "kore" is needed. One can also say that a sentence is
> factual: "to fra hay". If you mean that the sentence is correct as in
> grammatically correct, you can say "without grammatical mistakes" (for which
> you need a word for grammar, which I think could be "bolsiem" if we
> introduce "siem" for "system").

It's amazing how complicated this gets sometimes.  I do have 'via', which is pretty much 
identical to Esperanto 'lau,' meaning according to, along, following.  

Thing is, 'to fra hay' to me, seems to mean not that the sentence is true, but that it exists, 
but I may be mentally wandering around too much.