• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    I’m not the one confused, I understood Sahara just fine. I’m more confused why we’re 10 comments deep into, essentially, Sahara’s choice to use the word “never.”

    I’m asking this seriously: how do you handle sarcasm? Or hyperbole?

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        2 months ago

        Okay, so the word “never” is being used here in its hyperbolic form to, tactfully, strengthen the rhetoric. It impassions the speech to deliver a point with more verve than another choice would.

        The message is easy to receive. What is it you gain by being this needlessly contrarian?