I'm with brain fade.
There seems to be a certain group of people who find great delight in extracting whatever ambiguity they can from a simple, straight-forward instruction. (E.g. "ABC take next taxiway left" , "ABC is that the next taxiway or the one after?" - I kid you not ,WTF!!!)
We now find ourselves almost trying to second-guess just how wrongly someone will interpret what we are saying and phrase it in such a fashion that even a simpleton could not misunderstand -but to no avail.
No wonder our R/T loadings are going through the roof.