The Big Lie (GanS 6)

A useful concept for spreading the One True Orthography (=KK®!), first coined and put to use by an Austrian corporal who suffered from a pathological dose of folie de grandeur. Niccoló Macchiavelli probably wishes he'd thought of the phrase first: ' La Bugia Grande' — 'Die Grosse Lüge' — though neither of those sounds quite as good as 'The Big Lie. The first just has to be an outsized form of pasta ("I'll have the Bugia bolognese, garçon, por favor, like"), while the second suggests an overinflated rubber gun. But both of these men would be proud of their modern acolytes, who have taken the Art of Mendacity to a whole new higher level of expertise altogether.

Examples of the Big Lie are littered thoughout these pages (see 'cuckoo', for instance), as this was one of the factors that brought Gerva an Scrynkyer (and this blog) into being in the first place. Disinformation is best fought with a dose of the plain unvarnished truth, we always say: La verité—c'est moi! as Charles de Gaulle might have put it. Curiously enough (though put it down to editorial bias, if you fancy), since we introduced the Sans-Serif-for-KK convention to these pages, most if not all of the BL's seem to have been set in that font. Anecdotally, of course.