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>"... because that sentence will sell several billion of these things." Several billion? what are you smoking?
by pavs 17y ago
>"... because that sentence will sell several billion of these things."
Several billion? what are you smoking?
- rinich 17y agohyperbole /haɪp'ɜːʳbəli/ Synonyms: exaggeration, hyperbola, overstatement If someone uses hyperbole, they say or write things that make something sound much more impressive than it really is.
- pavs 17y agoAre you implying your audience are a bunch of idiots? Seriously, that's not even a hyperbole. That's a really stupid statement, even for a hyperbole.
- rinich 17y agoI'll explain again. The point of hyperbole is to deliberately exaggerate something for effect, in this case humorous. I could have tried to estimate how much Apple will sell, but I don't care about estimation. My point is they will sell a lot. My audience is not a bunch of idiots. They got it. You're the only one out of thousands of readers who's complained.
- kyro 17y agoNot to make an issue out of something so trivial, but honestly, it didn't come across as hyperbole. The general tone of the article is pretty direct and in-your-face, so it looks more like an actual attempt at estimation rather than humor, for consistency's sake.
- MaysonL 17y agoOver the next couple decades, quite possibly [counting its evolutionary descendants].