Is linguistic inflation insanely awesome? (2012)

When language is inflated you sometimes have to resort to understatement for emphasis, e.g.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped.” -- British Airways Pilot Eric Moody’s message to passengers when the engines failed flying through a volcanic ash cloud

I've tried underpayment as a response to currency inflation but it was less effective.

I 99.753% agree with this but they didn't deal with spurious precision adequately