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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
What part of what she described fits within the definition of embellishment?
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I'm not going to look up the definition. Instead, I'll answer like a layman, instead of a lawyer.
Embellish in general usage means "to puff up the story - to make the event seem more dramatic - to add make the facts more salacious, interesting, intriguing." Now, to an English major or a person fixated on the verbage and missing the general point (read: 99% of lawyers), that may not fit the Oxford dictionary definition of "embellish." Whatever. Among the average bears, thats embellishment, and outside your office, and the narrow institutions in which we work, which institutionalize us into a warped view of reality, thats embellishment. What RT described fits the general usage of "embellish." And if you pick out the definition of "embellish" and chuck it back to me with some harrumph, you'll know you've been institutionalized.
