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Right, but “two or three out of potentially hundreds” doesn’t mean the same as “hundreds”. That’s the hyperbole the parent was pointing out.
by robotresearcher 14d ago
Right, 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 13d 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 13d 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