The author makes the point at the end that it's important to grasp the wider context. The wider context is that people aren't expected to care so much about th

The author makes the point at the end that it's important to grasp the wider context. The wider context is that people aren't expected to care so much about the specificity of their phrasing all the time. The mathematically-minded would serve themselves better by ascertaining the category of the conversation and context at hand.