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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4816404, member: 181"] [USER=1329]@auror[/USER] posted: "Hyperbole is a rhetorical and literary technique where an author or speaker intentionally uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect." It may have been a definition quoted directly from an uncredited source I assert that the effect in this case was to reduce the credibility of what followed, calling into question any-to-all other assertions thereafter made. Sure, you got my attention, but at what cost within this post and perhaps others in the future? [/QUOTE]