Keeping in mind that lying is stressful, what externally detectable signs might a lie detector identify, assuming it reliability

Lie detection or polygraph testing relies on Autonomic System arousal.  For polygraph lie detection, scientific validity rests on the strength of evidence supporting all the inferential links between deception and the test results. It is appropriate for making the discrimination between deception and truthfulness. Polygraph practice is built on comparing physiological responses to questions that are considered relevant to the investigation at hand, which evoke a lie from someone who is being deceptive. 

nigger, that word was originated for white folks   to keep black people under

and when black people use it, they know that's just how they greet each other

and when white folks use it, they know there's a double meaning under