[WikiEN-l] Hello world! (was "Hello world?")

[Carcharoth]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jimmy taking his birthdate as that which his mother tells him rather
>> than that which is on his birth certificate doesn't sound like a lie
>> to me. A lie is saying something that you know to be untrue, this is
>> simply a disagreement regarding what is true.
>
> Assuming his *latest* story is the truth (and it seems to be), the
> lies would be when he told the reporter that August 7 was incorrect,
> when he told Encyclopedia Britannica that August 7 was incorrect, when
> he told the reporter that Wikipedia got the date from Britannica, and
> when he referenced the reporters story on his blog saying "for the
> first time the world has a proper source".

It sounds to me more like he didn't know the truth himself, and his
mother later told him what the source of the confusion was. No need to
accuse anyone of lying, as far as I can see.

Carcharoth