• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Do you understand that some words mean something beyond their literal, exact definition? If someone says “it’s raining buckets”, would you come in and say “that rhetoric is misleading, I looked outside and no buckets are falling from the sky”?

    • centof@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      Of course. The problem is that when someone says one thing is another thing, that is not obviously metaphorical. Maybe you’d be able to tell in person but not through text where the message is monotonized and broadcasted to the entire internet.