• Fix your Grammar
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[video=youtube;IJ2SHSg5rIY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ2SHSg5rIY[/video]
This video literally made me shit myself.
That literally blew my mind.
do you suppose the whole "literally" argument is now maybe slightly invalid now that dictionaries recognize it was being a massive exaggeration or outright lie? I mean look. [quote]literally (ˈlɪtərəlɪ) — adv 1. in a literal manner 2. (intensifier): there were literally thousands of people usage The use of literally as an intensifier is common, esp in informal contexts. In some cases, it provides emphasis without adding to the meaning: the house was literally only five minutes walk away. Often, however, its use results in absurdity: the news was literally an eye-opener to me. It is therefore best avoided in formal contexts [/quote] Doesn't make them any smarter, sure, but doesn't this mean they're technically grammatically correct?
[QUOTE=xxfalconxx;43936611]do you suppose the whole "literally" argument is now maybe slightly invalid now that dictionaries recognize it was being a massive exaggeration or outright lie? I mean look. Doesn't make them any smarter, sure, but doesn't this mean they're technically grammatically correct?[/QUOTE] [i]Technically[/i], yeah. It is annoying, however, that a word's been overused as a figurative statement intensifier to the point of its opposite definition also becoming a secondary definition. So now we have a word that means two completely opposite things.
[QUOTE=xxfalconxx;43936611]do you suppose the whole "literally" argument is now maybe slightly invalid now that dictionaries recognize it was being a massive exaggeration or outright lie? I mean look. Doesn't make them any smarter, sure, but doesn't this mean they're technically grammatically correct?[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure most people know that when people use literally in a sentence they're exaggerating. it's part of 21st century jargon now. i know what "literally" [I]literally[/I] means, but i'm still going to use it however i want.
Languages change deal w/ it.
Comma splices- goddamn everywhere and people don't notice them. [editline]16th February 2014[/editline] I want to commit genocide on people who comma splice.
We need a new "literally". But we need to make it so long and complex that no one would use it unless they literally meant "literally". Like "I expricafictuititiously just went to the store just to buy a screwdriver."
[QUOTE=One Ear Ninja;43936977]comma splices goddamn everywhere and people don't notice them [editline]16th February 2014[/editline] I want to commit genocide on people who comma splice[/QUOTE] Where are your periods you son of a bitch, genocide everyone everywhere.
Funny how, in their attempt to describe 'literally', they (historically) misused 'actually', which once upon a time meant 'currently' until people misused it in much the same way people misused literally. Not saying that nullifies their point, but I think literally is just a vernacular word for the time being. It'll either stick around and become a formal part of the language in a hundred years or so, or it'll disappear and the original meaning will remain.
what was ever wrong with figuratively literally literally doesn't mean literally
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