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>the appearance of being self-contradictory
I thought we'd refuted that.
Well, maybe. A case, (a strong one, imo) can still be made for saying that, using the most common definitions of both small and immense, the text is self-contradictory. Even allowing that the writer was being exceptionally precise and careful in his or her word choice, the phrasing still sounds clumsy and stupid to me.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with my last post. My last post had to do with my instinctive aversion to being told what I was thinking.
I was not one of the "y'all" who were, apparently, railing against advertising hype. And I seldom need anyone to tell me what it is that I was trying to communicate.
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