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> And most importantly, expectations matter. Presentation matter. The reactions of people around you matter. If you have brought a can of the most disgusting fo
by convexity 8y ago
> And most importantly, expectations matter. Presentation matter. The reactions of people around you matter. If you have brought a can of the most disgusting food in the world, a bucket to barf in and your mates are giggling and ready to record your reaction, you will most likely not enjoy surströmming.
Overexaggertion is an Internet currency. Everyone probably has a personal experience with this. For example, someone on reddit exaggerating the severity of weather patterns in the town you grew up in (you know it ain't that bad), tastiness of Nutella, painfulness of stepping on Lego bricks etc. I personally found the Youtube videos of people overreacting (playing up to camera) to benign food I grew eating laughable and eye-roll worthy.
- zakk 8y ago> Overexaggertion Overexaggeration is not a word, you are overexaggerating... oops... exaggerating.
- taneq 8y agoAre you saying there's no appropriate level of exaggeration to exceed?
- leoc 8y agoThere is no possible level of exaggeration which could ever be enough.
- walkingolof 8y agoIt’s posdible that the poster is Swedish, where the direct translation of “overexaggeration” is “överreaktion”
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- jwandborg 8y agoOver-reaction would be the direct translation. Over-exaggeration would translate back to Swedish as överöverreaktion.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoMerriam-Webster disagrees! https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overexaggerate https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overexaggerate (I admit it's an annoyingly redundant word, but I can accept it from a non-native speaker.)