> Second, the word "lie" is far more harsh than what I presume > you meant to say. For me, and I think for most people, the word > "lie" implies a deliberate intent to deceive.
No, it doesn't. Consider Joseph Conrand's Heart of Darkness, the final episode where Marlow comes to Kurtz' widow and tells her about how her husband died. He lies to her, but his intent is not to deceive her, instead, he intends to make sure that her delusion of her late husband is unharmed and that she continues to live that delusion because he judges she will be better off for it. In fact, you yourself used the word deceit, which is to lie with intention to benefit from a lie. But people tell lies for all sorts of reasons. People can lie by omission, through embellishment, by choosing to focus on less relevant aspects of the event. All of these are lies. When a painter mixes white paint into the form shadow of a plaster ball, she lies. When Google Maps puts the destination marker of the restaurant you have a reservation in in the middle of a sea, it lies. English literature lessons aside, even if you believe what you believe about the meaning of the word, you could at least try to find the irony, that was the larger goal, than to immediately presume you are being attacked, and start retaliating instead of looking into the problem. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
