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I know that. I was trying to get him to understand that the op was talking in a generic sense. Both op and myself realize that new Zealand has an equivalent concept of the fifth. Op wasn't trying to say walk in and literally say "plead the fifth" but walk in and do the equivalent of that.
People get way to literal when they don't need to be.
You're right. I thought everyone here knows "the 5th" and it's just shorter than "the right to remain silent". However, most people seem to have got the right idea.
That's the second most American centric thing I've read today.
Even those that are complaining about the op using the term "the fifth" knew what it basically translated to,
Nope, never heard of it.
The US isn't the centre of the world.
You personally might not have heard about it. Look at the other comments. It's obvious most did.