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		blargey 80 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Avoiding the Global Lobotomy If that "in my language" version is a serious attempt at condensing the meaning of the quote instead of taking a potshot at the author, that illustrates a severe decline in reading comprehension more than any blog post argument.

kamaal 80 days ago [–]

Nah, almost all the times a thing can be said straight without having to resort to metaphors, similes, adjective, adverbs etc.

You don't have to exaggerate the description of anything to send a message, thats the literary equivalent of screaming.

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