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Reddit now literally powers the generation of news cycles across the blogerverse. I didn't know Reddit had their own power plant.
by SquareWheel 14y ago
Reddit now literally powers the generation of news cycles across the blogerverse.
I didn't know Reddit had their own power plant.
- lazugod 14y agoIs that a joke, or are you unfamiliar with the many definitions of power?
- SquareWheel 14y agoIt was a joke (a bad one, clearly), but it was at the definition of the word literally. The OP presumably meant figuratively.
- eli 14y agoThe OP is fine. You're being overly pedantic. People have been using the word this way for (literally) hundreds of years. Moreover, the truly literal definition of the word is from the Latin for "letter" and means something like "letter-for-letter truth." So using this word to describe anything other than a written document is "wrong" on some level. But language doesn't really work that way.
- simonbrown 14y agoUsing a different definition of the word power doesn't make it any less literal.
- lukifer 14y agoGoogle "definition literally". It's depressing, but that's the way the cookie bounces: language mutates, for better and for worse.
- SquareWheel 14y ago"Used to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling." Well that just makes me sad. We don't really have another word to use in its stead, do we?
- Hovertruck 14y agoYou could say "for all intents and purposes" or "practically".
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