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Unlike (say) French, English has no central authority determining correct or incorrect usage. Anything literally goes.
by butlersean 2y ago
Unlike (say) French, English has no central authority determining correct or incorrect usage.
Anything literally goes.
- malort 2y agoIncluding, unfortunately, this usage of "literally."
- Two4 2y agoYou're literally being a like, linguistic pervert rn
- buildsjets 2y agoI read this in a Moon Unit Zappa voice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Girl_(song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Girl_(song)
- mulmen 2y agoWhat other use of literally is there?
- Brian_K_White 2y agoWere you not aware what hapoened to the word several years ago?
- mulmen 2y agoMalort implied butlersean’s use of literally is incorrect, which it doesn’t appear to be. I am aware that groaning about incorrect usage of literally is a meme but that seems to also require being wrong about the usage being incorrect.