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Tue 07 Jul 2008Language of hyperbole has floated free of reality
The hyper-inflation of language has out-stripped even that of money in modern culture, writes Fintan O'Toole.
INFLATION IS much on our minds these days, though at least we have the European Central Bank to keep it under control. But there's another kind of inflation, and it's rampant. It's the inflation of language, the hyping-up of the ordinary into the extraordinary, the mundane into the epic.
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