Hi, Sandra,
At 05:43 AM 8/19/2004, you wrote:
>>Some more hyperbole for you...
>>Pygmies being eaten by rebels in Congo's ongoing war, UN reveals<<
The exaggeration I had in mind was not the cannibalism itself. It was the use of what
would, from a logical standpoint, be referred to as hasty generalization ("they")
which seems somewhat hyperbolic to me.
Mark A. Foster * http://markfoster.net
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger"
-- Mark Twain and Abbie Hoffman
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