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> Literally I literally think you don't know what that word means. Edit: David Cross explains this point better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/wat
by stephenr 9y ago
> Literally
I literally think you don't know what that word means.
Edit: David Cross explains this point better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ly1UTgiBXM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ly1UTgiBXM
- Jaruzel 9y agoFrom the OED: Literally (informal): Used for emphasis while not being literally true.
- imron 9y agoIt means figuratively ;-)
- tomsthumb 9y agoIt literally doesn't :)
- imron 9y agoIt's literally been used that way for centuries [0]. Consider: 1. It's been used like this for centuries 2. By well-known writers including Dickens, Twain, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Brontë 3. The definition of such usage is included in all major dictionaries 4. It's incredibly common in real-life use of the language To somehow insist that it doesn't mean that, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, requires extraordinary feats of denial. 0: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...