I once saw an episode of "cops" where the police officer kept on telling the offender, "your license has been suspended or revoked!" like that officer was not allowed to modify the standard phrase and inform the offender which of the two events had in fact taken place.

That's a bit like software telling you you have "1 file(s)".

I was forced to think of the above when I saw the following error message after trying to open a file in Word:

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