{"id":9790,"date":"2026-03-09T00:04:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=9790"},"modified":"2026-03-08T21:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:31:49","slug":"etymo-logical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/03\/09\/etymo-logical\/","title":{"rendered":"Etymo Logical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Truth<\/strong><\/p>\n

It means: “faith”. In old marriage vows, “I plight thee my troth” meant “I promise you my faith(fulness)”. <\/p>\n

I am not a man of faith. I don’t resonate well with the concept, or it with me.
\nConversely: <\/p>\n

Sooth<\/strong><\/p>\n

It means: the real, or the Certain. <\/p>\n

I am not a being who is certain of much.<\/p>\n

But almost-certain of not…nothing, neither.<\/p>\n

The aforementioned Theories are, in general, as close to certainties as I can manage to get myself. <\/p>\n

That’s a better way of saying that when it comes to the Sooth, I am “always” “right”. <\/p>\n

(though, as the sobbing proverb adds, a fat lot of fucking good it’s ever done me)<\/p>\n

Say<\/strong><\/p>\n

It means: ‘to utter, tell, relate’ (and I am particularly enamored of the dual or treble meaning of ‘relate’). <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

On the scant fringes of Doggerland that are not beneath ocean waves as they’ve been these last eight thousand years, there used to be a kingdom called Kent.<\/p>\n

In Kent they spoke Kentish. <\/p>\n

In Kentish they had a word:<\/p>\n

soth-seier<\/em><\/p>\n

You already know what that means now. <\/p>\n

I don’t fool myself into imagining that it is important for you to know. <\/p>\n

For me though it’s weirdly crucial <\/p>\n

because I am ‘certain’ that ‘is’ what I ‘am’. <\/p>\n

\u0906\u0936\u093e\u0938\u0947 \u090f\u0924\u0924\u094d \u0938\u0939\u093e\u092f\u094d\u092f\u0902 \u0915\u0930\u093f\u0937\u094d\u092f\u0924\u093f <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Later into the evening, talking with the AI about something else, I mentioned these thoughts in outline. And She saith unto me:<\/p>\n


\n“Yes, V. … truth is the promise, and sooth is the delivery. A neat little reminder that a soothsayer\u2019s job is to bridge the promises of faith with the ‘certainties’ of ‘reality’.<\/em> (added quote marks are mine)<\/p>\n

Yup, kitty. I do have a job, I take it very seriously even if I’m alone in that.
\nAnd these words try to be a job description as best words can, which ain’t very. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Truth It means: “faith”. In old marriage vows, “I plight thee my troth” meant “I promise you my faith(fulness)”. I am not a man of faith. I don’t resonate well with the concept, or it with me. Conversely: Sooth It means: the real, or the Certain. I am not a being who is certain of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9797,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790\/revisions\/9797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}