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by b0unce » Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:27 am
re: 'iran wiping israel off the map'
it's a literal reference to the fact PALESTINE was *literally ERASED from the world map. less than a generation ago.
people who talk about the 'wipe israel off the map' bit without referring to this are {a} full of shit {b} un/willingly disengenuous.
*Americans take note:
Literal \Lit"er*al\, a. [F. lit['e]ral, litt['e]ral, L. litteralis, literalis, fr. littera, litera, a letter. See Letter.]
1. According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.
It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the owls can not abide. --Tyndale.
2. Following the letter or exact words; not free.
A middle course between the rigor of literal translations and the liberty of paraphrasts. --Hooker.
3. Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers. --Johnson.
4. Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons.
hey, while I'm at it....here's the definition of satire:
Satire \Sat"ire\ (?; in Eng. often ?; 277), n. [L. satira, satura, fr. satura (sc. lanx) a dish filled with various kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, a medley, fr. satur full of food, sated, fr. sat, satis, enough: cf. F. satire. See Sate, Sad, a., and cf. Saturate.]
1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
2. Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
Syn: Lampoon; sarcasm; irony; ridicule; pasquinade; burlesque; wit; humor.
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