Q: How many legs does a dog have if you call its tail a leg?
A: Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Q: Between email meetings, telephone meetings, web-conferencing meetings, and in-person meetings, how many kinds of meetings are there if we define an email meeting as not being a meeting?
A: Four. Pretending that words don't mean things doesn't make them stop meaning things.
meeting, n. 1. a formally arranged gathering 2. the social act of assembling for some common purpose
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