Is This How Language Works?

"This is not how language works," he says. "If if we're taking wood en literalism and and picking apart statements in such a way, then people are just lying all the time." He goes on to say that Jesus' illustration of the mustard seed as being the smallest was actually an example of figures of speech. 'I kind o do't know what to tell you, ah, but, like, clearly, this is not howlanguage works,' he concludes.