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Discover LudwigThe phrase "I jest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that you are joking or not being serious about something you just said.
Example: "I thought you were serious about that proposal, but I jest; I know you were just kidding."
Alternatives: "I'm joking" or "I’m just kidding."
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I jest, of course.
Or so I jest.
I jest of course.
I jest not.
You think I jest?
Obviously, I jest.
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All this is important not actually for letting robots raise our kids as I jested above, but for making all human-computer interactions more natural — without overdoing it or making it creepy.
"Gerard, if she has those puppies while you're away, I'll hurt you!" I jested as he headed out to the van.
Thus the gods still plague you!/ He lost his labor/I my jest; for he was drowned, and I've the ague".
With John, I could jest and curse and argue, give wild voice to my thoughts, and, if I overshot with my ignorance and bombast or muddled the matter with a bout of plain confusion, he'd suspend the dialogue with a groan of "Oh, C-R!" and re-stoke the pipe bowl, using his thumb as a damper, before steering me back to the issue at hand.
Now, slightly over three thousand anythings is a fairly low number — maybe the number of people hospitalized in a year for stepping on Legos, I would jest.
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