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I Cannot Tell a Lie (but I Can Mislead)! And Sometimes People Do It With Percentages.

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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The Difference Between Lying and Misleading

Unlike lying, if your target doesn't buy your misleading statement, then you haven't misled anyone. In contrast, squiggly 's only misleading ard vark if he says something that's not itself false. This triggere is what those studying pragmatics call a scaler implicature. A speaker's use of the smaller term one or a part usually negates the larger term.

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