>>> It's not a figure of speech, it's an inaccurate statement that those
>>> proponents of so-called "intelligent design" latch onto like leeches
>>> and say "see, see, there IS a creator!"
>>
>> And I really don't care if those fools want to purposely misunderstand
>> me. They aren't my intended audience.
>
> Propagating a misconception doesn't help all the same.  It's important to
> choose words with care.

Nobody worries for one second about saying things like "Word 
misunderstood what I told it to do". Because very few people are stupid 
enough to believe that a computer program like Word actually 
"understands" anything. Similarly, our language is full of such 
short-cuts, who's meaning is obvious. The only reason we're having this 
conversation is that a few nutcases want to pretend that their invisible 
friend made the universe. Well, that's their problem.

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