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That stops working when its not obviously rhetorical.

Someone else in the thread mentioned: 'All my kids are in high school'. If you said this to a stranger with no other context, they will 100% think that you have kids. There is no possibility that you meant, 'I am asserting that in the set of my children, each element satisfies the property of being in high school'




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