Anatole Ngemba
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Leah Price
Quote 4
This word béene-béene, you want to know what it means, then? […] It means, as true as the truth can be." (3.15.103, 3.15.104)
Why does Congolese have a word for the "truest truth" when English does not? Do the words a language contains tell you anything about the people who speak it—and is English just better for lying with?