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Originally Posted by Jan-Poo
To make another example. If a guy is of black and asian descent and I said "he is of african descent" I am not lying. But if I say "he is of african descent only" then I AM lying. Adding a simple adverb such as "only" to a sentence can completely change its meaning.
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Yeah except if you ask me, the sixteenth stand doesn't mean anything other than sixteen people fit in there. Whether there IS a sixteenth person or not is not something you can derive from the number of stands. No one asked "Is there a sixteenth person?", all they asked was "Why is there a sixteenth stand?". The answer is "So that it accomodates sixteen people.". It's not like he said there
wasn't a sixteenth person.
I don't think I can explain it any better than this. If you insist on seeing it as a lie, rather than the manipulative choice of wording that it really is, I guess it ends here.