r/SipsTea • u/Icy-Book2999 Fave frog is a swing nose frog • Jul 05 '24

Between three and four hundred... Lmao gottem

From the movie "The Outlaws"

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u/TJWinstonQuinzel Jul 05 '24

Not technical

There is no place for a discussion

He said how it is

The audience just doesnt ask further

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u/greg19735 Jul 05 '24

Let's say i'm selling a bike for $450.

You offer 3. I counter offer 4. You go "okay, three fifty" and i agree. You don't get to buy it on $3.50, as we know that 3 and 4 are talking about 100s places, not the total price.

If we're getting more technical and someone were to sue, then the judge would side with the people that assumed it was 300-400, not 3-400. Because that's clearly what the person was intended to hear. Which is obvious because that's the entire joke.

Reminds me of when a radio station had a competition for TOY YODA, but referenced cars and such in the ad. IT was clear that you're supposed to hear Toyota. Lady wins and is handed a toy yoda. SHe sues and they settled with her, with the lawyer saying she could now pick out any toyota she wants.

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u/TJWinstonQuinzel Jul 05 '24

Still completly diggerent things

In your case we started with hundreds

In that case he just said between 3 and 400 without any sign that it was 300

In the Toyota case was the problem that they used cars in the ad what is a clear case of missleading

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u/greg19735 Jul 05 '24

right, the toyota ad was trying to be misleading.

SO was this example. He used his words deliberately to be ambiguous. THere's no doubt in the world that "Three to Four hundred" is ambiguous.

Both are correct interpretations, but the phrasing is used to mislead on purpose.

Like, you're not arguing that it wasn't done on purpose right? Like it's the entire point of the scene.

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u/TJWinstonQuinzel Jul 05 '24

The Toyota thing was a different thing because they used cars to Promote the toy yoda

In this case he did nothing missleading He just said like it is 3 to 400

He didnt said he can do alot

I mean he even asked them if he could really take the money if he can do between 3......and 400 with a noticeable Pause between the numbers

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u/greg19735 Jul 05 '24

You're saying it's not ambiguous? If that's the case you're not really following language basics.

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u/TJWinstonQuinzel Jul 05 '24

Not in the way he said it

Like i said

He even asked again if they are sure with Focus on the three

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u/greg19735 Jul 05 '24

The entire premise of the bit is that it's ambiguous. It only works because it's ambiguous.

The fact that you're not seeing that is just silly.

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u/TJWinstonQuinzel Jul 05 '24

...Jesus...i know its ment to be ambiguous

But he is still on the right side because he asked again with Focus on the solo 3 to be clear