[ysavir]

Yeah, I don't know why scholars approach ancient texts as though figurative writing was not available to them, and that their words can be taken at face value, without a need for understanding a variety of applicable contexts.

[SilasX]

Well, they tried coordinating on some marker to indicate when a particular usage was non-figurative, but then, people started using that marker figuratively, as a generic intensifier, which broke the protocol...