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Use of the word "literally" as hyperbole is understood clearly by every single reader of this thread, including you. You might as well get over it.
by dionidium 11y ago
Use of the word "literally" as hyperbole is understood clearly by every single reader of this thread, including you. You might as well get over it.
- Flimm 11y agoI actually took what he said at face value and I understood that he does tear paper up.
- jqm 11y agoWhich might be true. I know a guy who had his secretary print everything out rather than read it on the screen. Which I always found silly and wasteful, but there are people like this.
- jqm 11y agoWell, we are going to need another word to replace "literally" than. Because in being funny we have literally abused literally to death. For a replacement could we maybe use "figuratively"? Or maybe the joke doesn't work in reverse?