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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Which was why your "anyone who understands English would it interpret the way I do" intimatation struck me as dismissively odd.
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It wasn't the best way to describe my thoughts, granted.
My thoughts are, when they specifically say "Permanently delete" and then, in addition to that statement, they totally remove it from your view - that would tend to lead someone to believe that it would be permanently gone from view. The fact that it pops back into view years later - under a newly released feature - could be considered unexpected by some people, couldn't it?
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Explanation for those that take everything literally, and have an understanding of the English language:
I did not state the above as a question because I'm looking for an answer - because I already know what the answer would be. "No, not unexpected at all." I was simply using a question as a way to emphasize my point. This is called a "rhetorical question".
Somewhat related to a rhetorical question (in function) is an "axiom". That is what I was using when I said earlier "...anyone who understands the English language..."
Axiom: A statement that is unproved but accepted as a basis for other statements.
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Our expectations of Amazon differ, and this is fine. Our use of the English language differs as well. This is fine too, and still legal (for now).