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I'm not sure From The Latin "Intro Ducere" belongs here. The relevant error listed on this page is mentioned in the description, but it is explicitly about misusing the trope — the trope itself is simply about characters spouting off etymology facts.

And actually, while I'm reading the page, it seems unnecessarily critical and could use a rewrite. Notably all the tropes are listed as "mistakes," when in many cases (evidenced by the examples on each page) they are deliberately used by the author despite not being true in real life.

The page currently lists this as an "Author's Mistake":

• Language of Truth: If it is impossible to make a false statement in a language, it's impossible to make any statement in it at all.

Firstly, this seems to be a misunderstanding of something said on the Language of Truth page: if it's impossible to say something untrue in a language, then it must also be impossible to say some true things. "You can't say everything" isn't the same as "you can't say anything".

Secondly, if we correct that, then where's the problem? In which way is it an author's mistake? Or any kind of mistake at all? I feel like there's some logical problem that's just eluding me, to justify its inclusion here...