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<div>Or perhaps you meant &quot;light&quot; in &quot;hyperbole light&quot; in a positive sense as in &quot;the light of the Lord?&quot; as opposed to the negative implications in &quot;hyperbole dark&quot; similar to the use of &quot;dark&quot; in &quot;evil is dark?&quot;
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<div>The slippage of language strikes again!</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ted Moffett</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">starbliss@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span>
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<div>Dave et. al.</div>
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<div>I forgot to point out that the definition of hyperbole implies the exaggeration is &quot;intentional,&quot; 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> &lt;<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com" target="_blank">starbliss@gmail.com</a>
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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 &quot;light&quot; can be used sometimes to mean something similar to &quot;lite&quot; as in &quot;lite beer.&quot;&nbsp; This seems to allow too much confusion between the meaning of &quot;light&quot; and &quot;lite.&quot; 
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<div>Perhaps &quot;hyperbole lite&quot; can be used without it being an oxymoron, but hyperbole by definition is &quot;exaggeration,&quot; so how can it be &quot;lite,&quot; and still be exaggeration enough (note use of word &quot;extravagant&quot; in definition below) to be hyperbole?&nbsp; The phrase &quot;hyperbole dark&quot; does not&nbsp;suggest that it is an oxymoron.&nbsp;&nbsp;Hyperbole can be very very dark indeed without the word &quot;dark&quot; contradicting the meaning of &quot;hyperbole.&quot; 
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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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<div>Ted&nbsp;Moffett, Victimized by English teachers throughout my life&nbsp;(well, OK, not really throughout my life...This is hyperbole.&quot;<br><br>&nbsp;</div></span>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">david sarff</b> &lt;<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.&nbsp;&nbsp;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>&gt;<br>&gt;Dave wrote:<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;&gt;*hyperbole<br>&gt;&gt;light*<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;in regards to Jeff Harkin's post on Wenders.<br>&gt;<br>
&gt;Isn't this an oxymoron?<br>&gt;<br>&gt;Anyway, Jeff Harkin's post on Wenders struck me as sincere, honest, with no<br>&gt;intentional exaggeration, or exaggerated figures of speech meant not to be<br>&gt;taken literally, which is what &quot;hyperbole&quot; is. 
<br>&gt;<br>&gt;Or would Jeff like to suggest otherwise?<br>&gt;<br>&gt;Ted Moffett, resident nit-picker<br><br>_________________________________________________________________<br>Talk now to your Hotmail contacts with Windows Live Messenger. 
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