I think you are being unhealthily combative in this whole exchange. Not every person wants to have every utterance fact checked and checked for logic errors. O

I think you are being unhealthily combative in this whole exchange. Not every person wants to have every utterance fact checked and checked for logic errors. OP is trying to make a subjective point with his terminology. The words may be synonymous but words also carry subtext and other associations. They don't want counter examples. They don't want anyone to ask or beg them to move to the US. Who cares if the claims they made were inaccurate or warped? They are not teaching a class or writing a book but speaking off the cuff about memories. Logic is not the most important thing in the world, sometimes compassion and just listening to a story being told without pointing out every oddity is just how society works.