• MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s hyperbole. You’ve never been very hungry and said “I’m starving” or been out in very hot weather for a while and said “I’m dying out here”? I’m pretty sure the average reader is able to figure out from context she has not actually been abducted to a black site and waterboarded.

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      1 year ago

      Hyperbole is fine in small talk with coworkers, hyperbole in “news” headlines is annoying ass clickbait.