Hyperbole is a problem.<p>&gt;Or am I just being a sensitive ninny-nanny?<p>At least a little.<p>When we describe mundane things as extreme &quot;I&#x27;m _starving_ the slow service at this restaurant is torture&quot; or extreme things as mundane &quot;enhanced interrogation techniques&quot; we lose a little bit of our ability to correctly communicate and even experience the world.<p>Being in awe should be a rare and wonderful state, but instead it&#x27;s apt to describe a free sandwich as awesome.<p>The problem: lazy people with poor vocabulary (and education) and bad journalism and editorial work.