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Literally literally, or just lol?
by C19is20 7y ago
Literally literally, or just lol?
- pstuart 7y agoI literally fight this battle with my kid every day. That word is the new "like".
- dahart 7y agoFWIW, literally has been used to mean figurative emphasis for over 200 years... I used to correct my kids too, but then realized that all my ideas about common grammar mistakes are wrong. ‘Myriad of’ isn’t incorrect, the word myriad began as a noun, just like dyad or triad. ‘I am good’ is a perfectly fine way to respond to ‘how are you?’ There’s nothing wrong with verbing nouns, etc., etc.. It seems like it has become fashionable to write blogs posts complaining about other people’s grammar mistakes. (Though, maybe articles whinging about bad grammar is a past-time as old as dirt...) I’ve stopped believing any grammar complaints because there’s a lot of misinformation. Plus, the cool thing about language is that it changes. Something being used incorrectly by the majority of a population makes it de-facto correct. Anyway, you gotta sit back and enjoy the word fads that kids go through. They do grow out of weird word habits that seem annoying all by themselves. They just say certain words a lot because all their friends are saying them too, so there’s no way us parents scolding them for it will convince them it’s uncool; it’ll just make them think their parents are old... which we are. ;)
- dahart 7y agoI might in danger of failing to get another joke here, but she was lying on the floor while I was typing that, so yes literally literally.