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I have never heard “confabulate” in [American] English to mean anything other than “bullshitting.”
by ethanbond 3y ago
I have never heard “confabulate” in [American] English to mean anything other than “bullshitting.”
- tremon 3y agoSame here. I don't know if it's correct, but I've always considered "confabulate" etymologically related to "fable", so it's always fictitious by definition. edit: it is: https://www.etymonline.com/word/confabulate https://www.etymonline.com/word/confabulate -- although both the verb fabulari and the noun fabula ultimately come from the proto root bha-, which is also the root for falar in Portuguese and hablar in Spanish (and presumably parlez in French?)
- trealira 3y agoNo, according to Wiktionary[0] the verb parler comes from Early Medieval Latin parabolāre, which comes from Latin parabola (which in Late Latin could have the meaning of "parable"), and that was borrowed from Ancient Greek παραβολή. The Italian verb parlare has a similar etymology. [0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parler https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parler