• SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    “Literally everyone”

    You keep saying that. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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      11 months ago

      Hyperbole: A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

      • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        Yeah but there has to be some reality to it, sleep for a year makes sense because you’re saying ‘I’m super tired and I could sleep for a real long time’ all of which is true, this is saying ‘a majority of people in place A do this thing that is unknown in place B’ which isn’t even close to an approximation of reality.