A lie according to Merriam Webster s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabdriged is an assertion of something known or believed by the speaker to be untrue You said that you suggest using Inkscape for the entire SVG development So although those were not your exact words I never placed them in quotes Therefore my statement was true because I was paraphrasing you Even if my statement were untrue I was not trying to misrepresent you So it s not an issue of stupidity or lying on my part The problem in this case is that I understand what words mean in English and that you do not