The Magnificent Art of Saying Less Than Necessary

On Rhetoric and Literary Devices

There’s something rather magnificent about the British tendency to understate things – a peculiar alchemy that transforms the mundane act of downplaying into an art form of surprising sophistication. It’s a phenomenon that deserves far more attention than it gets, particularly from those of us obsessed with human behaviour and its delightfully irrational quirks. The […]

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