The Possibilities Are Not Endless

When you say "X," where X is a straightforward statement that's easily understood by anyone with a working grasp of the English language and an IQ above 70, and someone else responds "so what you're really saying is [insert something completely different from X]," the plausible reasons for that response are limited. I can think of three, in descending order of charitable benefit of doubt:

1. The respondent doesn't have a working grasp of the English language and/or an IQ above 70; or
2. The respondent lives in a fantasy world in which the problem is grip on reality rather than grasp of English; or
3. The respondent is a lying scumbag who knows exactly what he's doing, but hopes to fool onlookers with lower IQs and/or lesser command of English than him.

I suppose there could be others, but probably not many and those are the three I can think of.