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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by spdustin on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:56AM (#8752923)
I was replying to what you said. His hyperbole regarding unintelligent customers was the behavior that was called out as not nice, professional or intelligent.

His piss-poor use of hyphens (see what I did there?), however, isn't hyperbole. Hyperbole is a rhetorical device (and the greatest thing ever!), and unless he intended to evoke an emotional response in his readers by their incorrect and non-poetic application, it's just bad form; Being from the UK has bugger all to do with it.

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by vacri on Monday December 15, 2014 @04:19PM (#8754524)
It's strange that you educate us on what hyperbole and rhetorical devices are, yet can't recognise both those things in a sentence which begins "Are there people out there...?". The author is saying the direct opposite; that people aren't that stupid.
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