True or False

Swift makes our customs and ways of life seem even stranger in the moments when Gulliver is explaining to his master his life story. His master cannot believe a lot of the things Gulliver mentions, among them lying. His argument is as follows: "that the use of speech was to make us understand one another, and to receive information of facts; now, if any one said the thing which was not, these ends were defeated, because I cannot properly be said to understand him; and I am so far from receiving information, that he leaves me worse than in ignorance; for I am led to believe a thing black, when it is white, and short, when it is long." (Swift 187) This quote is very true. The point of language is communication, and lying takes away the point of communication. Then again, the point of lying is exactly that. These are two very weird concepts.