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Compare [[Can Not Tell a Lie]], in which the inability to lie is inherent in individual characters.

 

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[West of Eden]]'': The Yilanè in [[Harry Harrison]]'s trilogy have this. Learning to speak is what makes a Yilanè yilanè (capable of speech), and the thought is what causes the body motions that make up their language unless they are completely still. Humans who learn the language, however, are capable of lying in it.

* [[Older Than Steam]]: In ''[[Gullivers Travels]]'', the language of the Houyhnhnm is like this.

* Obviously inspired by Orwell, ''[[The Book of the New Sun]]'' features the Ascians, a people whose language is composed of a bunch of Mao-esque revolutionary slogans. However, the book explicitly shows that Ascians are capable of uttering subversive statements even when bound by this language.

* ''Hellspark'' by [[Janet Kagan]]: It is technically possible to lie in Jenji, but the language is structured to provide as much accuracy and detail as possible, and is backed up by cultural and religious penalties for lying. Several times characters refer to speaking in Jenji as synonymous to telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

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