An analytical newsletter based on the public record. Edited by Brady Bryson. On Terminology Language is a means of communication used by sentient beings, particularly homo sapiens, birds and other perceptive animals. Your Editor is uncertain about plants, although not a few gardeners talk to their petunias. Watch the gestures of anyone trying to explain things.
Human beings use their choice of words, inter alia, to provide emphasis.
This often leads to exaggeration, not necessarily delinquent for it is a means of getting attention, moving the message across the gap from speaker to listener, as long as exaggeration is used not to deceive, but to invigorate the exchange. This is an excusable overstatement, excusable because it begins to draw in a subtle way attention to unspoken but significant side effects, not all of them constructive, implicit in the new methods. In fact systems change is chronic. It goes on incessantly. Everything is part of an integrated moving design which is never static.