171. Where Is the Line Between Exaggeration and Lying? | No Stupid Questions
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- Why do we use “literally” figuratively? Does conveying an "emotional truth" justify making things up? And are Angela’s kids really starving or just hungry?
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When Angela talks about a professor being one the world’s best linguists is she exaggerating or lying?
Classic, isn’t it.
They don’t discuss omission, the leaving out of details or facts that might detract from a story. For example, you’re talking about how you caught this massive marlin, the struggle, the triumph…but you leave out that the boat captain held the pole, talked you through, and netted the fish.
In our family we exaggerate all the time, but not the way you have been discussing so far. We tend to use big numbers. My go to is 8 million. So it's blatantly obvious when we do it, everybody understands we are exaggerating immediately.
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