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> It would not be an overstatement to say walking towards the ticket booth felt like getting off a boat on Normandy. Why do people write things like this. Asid

• guntars 8y ago
  Not if it felt like it.
• ycomb2748 8y ago
  Where North Americans generally see crass overstatements as just that, the remainder of the Anglosphere (the author of the article being an Australian) see them as colourful humour.
  • vinay427 8y ago
    Eh, I'm a North American and I found iy humorous, but I could see the confusion as it is literally an overstatement though that's what makes it poignant to me.
• andybak 8y ago
  > that is literally the definition of an overstatement. Erm. That's the joke. It's like using "literally" in an intentionally wrong way: "I'm not exaggerating, here. That traffic warden is literally Hitler". Source: I'm British so it made perfect sense to me when I read it.