Inflationary Dialogue: Difference between revisions

* In the scene in ''[[The Hobbit]]'' where the dwarves are introduced to Beorn, Gandalf doesn't want to introduce all of them at once, for fear that Beorn won't be willing to provide them with hospitality if he sees all of them right away. As a result, his account of their prior adventures works this way.

* [[Discworld]] examples:

** In ''[[Lords and Ladies]]'', Casanunda, upon meeting the bandits who robbed him, indignantly claims they stole a horse - he then "remembers" a second horse, and within half a page it's multiplied into four.

** A variation in ''[[The Fifth Elephant]]'', when Vimes confidently (and accurately) predicts his dealing with five bandits on the road [[Gossip Evolution|will soon have swollen through rumour to 'thirty men and a dog']].