Okay, how hard is this? Especially for people who use words to make a living??? When you say, "Literally," you mean, uh......literally. That is to say, according to wordnetweb.princeton.edu you mean, "in a literal sense; literally translated." Or, according to en.wiktionary.org you mean, "In the direct, word for word sense."
So why do idiotic talking heads say stupid things like, "I literally flew across the room to change channels," or, "My brain literally exploded"? Of course, neither of those things literally happened. Yet, too many imbeciles feel the need to emphasize their stories by throwing in the adverb, "literally." The proper adverb would be, "figuratively," but of course that wouldn't emphasize anything. "My brain figuratively exploded." Nope. No emphasis. Maybe the sentence doesn't need emphasis, after all.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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