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"The dude was literally living inside the terminal." When you embellish your stories and miss key concepts such as hyperbole, I'm less likely to believe it and
by j4kp07 11y ago
"The dude was literally living inside the terminal."
When you embellish your stories and miss key concepts such as hyperbole, I'm less likely to believe it and/or even read it.
- anotherevan 11y ago“You know what happened last month, without anybody noticing? Webster’s Dictionary expanded the definition of the word ‘literally’ to include the way it is commonly misused. So the thing is, we no longer have a word in the English language that means literally, I mean literally doesn’t have a synonym. So we’re going to have to find a Latin word for it and use it, but I don’t know any Latin. So when I say I am literally going to set fire to this building with you in it before I hand over the keys to it, you don’t know if I’m speaking figuratively or literally.” — The Newsroom, “Run” by Aaron Sorkin
- TeMPOraL 11y agoThere's literally more than one XKCD strip relevant to this topic! https://xkcd.com/725/ https://xkcd.com/725/ https://xkcd.com/1108/ https://xkcd.com/1108/
- PascLeRasc 11y agoAnother relevant one! https://xkcd.com/1576/ https://xkcd.com/1576/