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Re: Re: Re: Re: 500 million Americans will lose their jobs without this stimulus. pac
Originally posted by KidRock
Why? It was just a verbal gaffe.Does that mean I am stupid?
Not knowing how many people live in your country makes you ignorant. (by the way, as of July 2008 it was 303,824,640.)
Not bothering to look it up before posting makes you lazy.
"Verbal" means "pertaining to words". You got a number wrong... by close to 200 million.
If someone asks me how many birds are on a fence, and I say that there are 5 when there are actually 3, that is not a verbal mistake. It means that I either can't count or can't see, not that I made a "verbal gaffe".
Not knowing that difference...that makes you stupid.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 500 million Americans will lose their jobs without this stimulus. pac
Originally posted by KharmaDog
If someone asks me how many birds are on a fence, and I say that there are 5 when there are actually 3, that is not a verbal mistake. It means that I either can't count or can't see, not that I made a "verbal gaffe".
however, one can misuse exaggeration for rhetorical effect, which would be at least closer to a "verbal gaffe"
par the example, were there more birds on the fence than someone had ever seen, they might exclaim that there were "millions" or "tons", neither likely being correct, though the intent of the phrase is not to carry exact data but rather the concept of a surprisingly large amount.
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