August 17, 2009PowerPhrase: Exaggeration as a humor tool
The Detective Mom is at it again. I got a laugh out of her comment that,
“My youngest’s first complete sentence was, ‘Mommy, can we get a dog now?’”
While I have felt victimized by exaggerated complaints and other abuses of exaggeration, it makes me chuckle to picture a toddler speaking this way for the very first time. In fact, it has me wanting to write a whole book where kids speak the way we hear their words as in this example.
Okay, maybe not a whole book. Perhaps I exaggerate.
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