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<blockquote data-quote="turbo" data-source="post: 2988001" data-attributes="member: 35072">That's not hyperbole.&nbsp; Hyperbole is a purposeful exagerration meant to be understood as such.An example from the poetry of John Donne:But yet thou canst not die, I know;To leave this world behind, is death,But when thou from this world wilt go,The whole world vapours with thy breath.Here, Donne expresses his intense feelings for his sick wife through the hyperbolic equation of her existence with that of the world.&nbsp; He's exagerrating for effect, and we all know it.I wasn't exagerrating for effect, and you and I and everyone else, all know it.I was saying with no rhetorical flourish that the revisions focus entirely on usefulness for encounters and not at all on usefulness for campaigns (except for campaigns understood only as a series of encounters).You disagree with that assertion, but, instead of arguing a counter-point, you've tried to discredit it through mischaracterization.Unfortunately, I doubt it was willful mischaracterization...[emphasis mine]Oh well!&nbsp; Learn as you go!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="turbo, post: 2988001, member: 35072"] That's not hyperbole. Hyperbole is a purposeful exagerration meant to be understood as such. An example from the poetry of John Donne: But yet thou canst not die, I know; To leave this world behind, is death, But when thou from this world wilt go, The whole world vapours with thy breath. Here, Donne expresses his intense feelings for his sick wife through the hyperbolic equation of her existence with that of the world. He's exagerrating for effect, and we all know it. I wasn't exagerrating for effect, and you and I and everyone else, all know it. I was saying with no rhetorical flourish that the revisions focus entirely on usefulness for encounters and not at all on usefulness for campaigns (except for campaigns understood only as a series of encounters). You disagree with that assertion, but, instead of arguing a counter-point, you've tried to discredit it through mischaracterization. Unfortunately, I doubt it was [B]willful[/B] mischaracterization...[emphasis mine] Oh well! Learn as you go! [/QUOTE]

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