If someone claims something about modest numbers there is little need to differentiate between the scenario described and the utterance being evidence for that kind of scenario to hold.
To me its not that the there is only a certain amount of threat per letter you can use (where 3^^^3 tries to be efficient) but the communicative details of the threat lose signficance in the limit.
Its about how much credible threat can be conveyed in a speech bubble. And I don’t think that has the form of “well that depends on how many characters the bubble can fill”. One does not up their threat level by being able to say large numbers and then saying “I am going to hurt you X much”. At the limit when your act would register in my mind as you credibly speaking a big threat would be hardly recognised as speaking any more. Its the point of instead of making air vibrate, you initiate supernovas to make a point.
If someone claims something about modest numbers there is little need to differentiate between the scenario described and the utterance being evidence for that kind of scenario to hold.
To me its not that the there is only a certain amount of threat per letter you can use (where 3^^^3 tries to be efficient) but the communicative details of the threat lose signficance in the limit.
Its about how much credible threat can be conveyed in a speech bubble. And I don’t think that has the form of “well that depends on how many characters the bubble can fill”. One does not up their threat level by being able to say large numbers and then saying “I am going to hurt you X much”. At the limit when your act would register in my mind as you credibly speaking a big threat would be hardly recognised as speaking any more. Its the point of instead of making air vibrate, you initiate supernovas to make a point.