While I was trying to make a post yesterday, and then again today, the post was disallowed and I got the following message:

All of the required fields are not filled in

All the fields were filled in as far as I could see, so once the horror at not being able to post subsided (and the problem was overcome by logging out and logging back in again), I fell to wondering about the above curious message.

Surely it says, however clumsily, that all the fields are empty, while what it was trying to say was that some of the fields had not been filled in. (As they all had been filled in, it's difficult to be sure.) So why not say "Not all of the fields are filled in." Is this illogicality common among computer architectonical types? Or is it more widespread and I've just never noticed it before?


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