If people have a reason to lie, they may want to use intensifiers like “honestly” for the same reason. Likewise for asking others to lie while pretending to ask for the honest truth—if you’re already pretending, why should we start being surprised only once you use words like “honestly”?
There’s an underlying question of why this particular pretense, of course.
If people have a reason to lie, they may want to use intensifiers like “honestly” for the same reason. Likewise for asking others to lie while pretending to ask for the honest truth—if you’re already pretending, why should we start being surprised only once you use words like “honestly”?
There’s an underlying question of why this particular pretense, of course.