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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (6094)	12/3/2005 2:14:13 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 542645

for you to say that it was hyperbole only reflected your point of view on the subject. My point of view on which subject, hyperbole or Bush's presidency? Hyperbola by definition is a figure of speech where exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect. The problem we're discussing, that Carter discussed, is not exaggerating for effect when everyone winks over the exaggeration. It's when people--either the listener or the speaker--think the exaggeration is truth. This is the kind of sloppy thinking that is fostered by an environment with a lot of shrill polarization. I suppose we can debate whether or not he should have used that word or coined a different word, but that's what he was talking about. In which our disagreement is semantic.

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