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Just because you don't need to interact with all of them today does not mean that interaction isn't required when needed.
by dylan604 1mo ago
Just because you don't need to interact with all of them today does not mean that interaction isn't required when needed.
- robotresearcher 1mo agoRight, but “two or three out of potentially hundreds” doesn’t mean the same as “hundreds”. That’s the hyperbole the parent was pointing out.
- reaperducer 1mo agoI don't think it's hyperbole as much as it is just regular ordinary everyday slang. "I have a hundred things to do today" doesn't mean that a person has 100 things on their list for that day. Outside of tech bubbles, people talk like that. It's like how the Bible uses the number 40 as a shortcut for any very large number. 40 years in the desert, 40 days of rain, etc… It's not a calendar, it's an illustrative euphemism.
- robotresearcher 1mo agoWhether it's regular ordinary everyday slang or not, it's exactly hyperbole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole