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<div>I forgot to point out that the definition of hyperbole implies the exaggeration is "intentional," which might rule it out as applied to either Jeff's post on Wenders or Wender's professional work.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ted Moffett</b> <<a href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">starbliss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<div>Thanks for your explanation...</div>
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<div>Oddly, according to the dictionary, at least in of them, the word "light" can be used sometimes to mean something similar to "lite" as in "lite beer." This seems to allow too much confusion between the meaning of "light" and "lite."
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<div>Perhaps "hyperbole lite" can be used without it being an oxymoron, but hyperbole by definition is "exaggeration," so how can it be "lite," and still be exaggeration enough (note use of word "extravagant" in definition below) to be hyperbole? The phrase "hyperbole dark" does not suggest that it is an oxymoron. Hyperbole can be very very dark indeed without the word "dark" contradicting the meaning of "hyperbole."
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<div><span><strong>hy·per·bo·le</strong></span> <span><img alt="" src="http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png" border="0"><span> <font color="#880000"><span>/</span><span><font size="2">haɪˈpɜr<img alt="" src="http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png" border="0">
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<div><span><font color="#558811"><em>–noun </em></font></span><span><span><em>Rhetoric</em></span>. </span>
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<td valign="top">an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as "to wait an eternity." </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>
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<div>Ted Moffett, Victimized by English teachers throughout my life (well, OK, not really throughout my life...This is hyperbole."<br><br> </div></span>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">david sarff</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:davesway@hotmail.com" target="_blank">davesway@hotmail.com
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>I see part of your point Ted. Any reference to hyperbole, was not intended<br>to be fixed to Jeff's post. I do apologize, it does read that way.
<br>Jeff gave references to works with the public utility industry and issues<br>relating to the sugar beet industry. These works may be more accurately<br>based on measures that are verifiable.<br>Given that I've never seen any work by Wenders as hyperbole free, hyperbole
<br>light/lite came to mind. As an exaggeration used for emphasis, it seems a<br>functional descriptor, as would the gravity of conceptual Hyperbole Dark,<br>which could describe the sort of darkly conscious *excessive throw* that
<br>Wenders chucked at Sue Hovey and others.<br>Dave<br><br><br>><br>>Dave wrote:<br>><br>><br>>>*hyperbole<br>>>light*<br>><br>><br>>in regards to Jeff Harkin's post on Wenders.<br>><br>
>Isn't this an oxymoron?<br>><br>>Anyway, Jeff Harkin's post on Wenders struck me as sincere, honest, with no<br>>intentional exaggeration, or exaggerated figures of speech meant not to be<br>>taken literally, which is what "hyperbole" is.
<br>><br>>Or would Jeff like to suggest otherwise?<br>><br>>Ted Moffett, resident nit-picker<br><br>_________________________________________________________________<br>Talk now to your Hotmail contacts with Windows Live Messenger.
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