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Originally Posted by Janszoon
If someone intentionally uses it incorrectly to be funny that's fine. I'm talking about when people use it incorrectly because they literally don't understand what it means.
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This.
Also how is "every pair of shoes" a hyperbole? If a person owns 3 pairs of shoes and said "I literally lost 3 pairs of shoes when my apartment flooded", is that a hyperbole"? It sounds stupid to say but it is not over-exaggerated.
Even if the sentence is a bad example the point of the topic shouldn't be overlooked.