Those sorts of mistakes are just gonna happen.

A lot of folks also still believe that words have meanings (as a one-place function), that the purpose of language is to communicate statements of fact, and that dishonesty and betrayal can be avoided by not saying any statements that are "technically" false.

Someone ought to write up "Five Geek Linguistic Fallacies" to accompany this old thing.

"I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar." —Nietzsche