Solecism? Or SOTA?

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:56 AM -0700 5/9/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Overheard yesterday on an airliner. The primary
>speaker was an African-American woman, about 40, who
>was flying to L.A.:
>
>"Oh, I have sextuplets.  Three boys and three girls."
>
>"Sextuplets? My, oh my! They were all born at once?"
>
>"Oh, no!  They were born at different times! But there
>are six of them!"
>

Well, technically, n-tuplets are all born at different times,
although as part of the same macro-event.  Presumably this trivial
seriatim reading was not intended here.

L