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what's the difference ? Between understatement and overstatement.
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" It was the classic overstatement, calling himself an "Ivy Leaguer," when he was a community college graduate and had only taken one non-credit summer course at Columbia.
- " It was the classic overstatement, calling himself an "Ivy Leaguer," when he was a community college graduate and had only taken one non-credit summer course at Columbia.
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The first is when you downplay something, the second is when you inflate something, for example:
He was the master of understatement, calling his dismissal a "mandatory vacation."
It was the classic overstatement, calling himself an "Ivy Leaguer," when he was a community college graduate and had only taken one non-credit summer course at Columbia.
He was the master of understatement, calling his dismissal a "mandatory vacation."
It was the classic overstatement, calling himself an "Ivy Leaguer," when he was a community college graduate and had only taken one non-credit summer course at Columbia.
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