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Literal description is not an exaggeration.

• dionidium 9y ago
  Yes, but descriptions that reduce complex interactions to their simplest form -- e.g. baseball is "grown men hitting a ball with a stick" -- is an old trick to conceal complexity for dubious motives. It's true that baseball is, in fact, grown men hitting a ball with a stick, but it isn't merely that. We all understand that that description is designed to ridicule something that is much bigger than its parts. So, yes, yours is a literal description, but it's also a clumsy and unnatural account that's crafted to manipulate the reader. Which is fine, as far as it goes; I just think your argument would be stronger without it.