It seems to have been heated!

[Temico]

It's not the same as the original reply.

I never said that it was the same, or did I?

I wrote "compare it to...". If two things(or whatever) are the same, do they need to be compared?

Now let's go back to comparing the use of words in both conversation, shall we?

A:We're having a really big battle inside our party at the moment.
-----why 'a really big battle' instead of 'a battle' or 'a big battle'?
Compare it to:-

A: The tea is scalding. ( Why use 'scalding" and not simply use 'hot'?)

See the comparison now??

[Tdol]

None of this indicates in any way that there's a typo in the original. 'Preheated arguments' is not a common collocation, and the conversation follows natural patterns. You haven't replied to what I said about 'hedging', which is what 'seems' is doing here.

The first person talks about a battle, really just confirms how big. The second person has got there information from the newspaper, and ventures a hedged agreement based on second-hand information. there is nothing unnatural about this. It's a perfectly correct and normal example of everyday conversation, and there is nothing to suggest that we should infer that there is a typo based on a virtually non-existent collocation.