Literally

Nice.

can't you use 'literally' ummm not literally?

But why use it to mean completely the opposite of what it means? Why add a word to a metaphor that means 'this is not a metaphor'? 'Invariably' is annoying like this - people keep using it to mean 'often' instead of 'absolutely every time, without variation'.

"i literally shat my pants"

umm... are you sure?

http://www.slate.com/id/2129105/

I remember a physics gcse class many years ago where my teacher told us that if we didn't do X in the exam, we'd literally be throwing marks down the drain.

There was a guy in the class called Mark and the idea of throwing him (and others like him obv.) down a drain was rather appealing.

was that deliberate?

TS: literally vs. it's academic

I mean umm, No. If only I were that clever.

FUFUFUFUFUFUFUFUFU!!!!

Aw, ken, jhoshea is just being effusive.

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"Heat stroke can literally fry your brain like a boiled egg"

"The Whig Party literally fell apart during the 1850's"

Those crazy fried boiled eggs.

During coverage of the big Bay Area earthquake in...whatever year the quake happened during the World Series, I was very irritated at the news people for using the word thusly: "The freeway (house, bridge, etc.) literally collapsed." Yes, it's true, the top of the freeway did fall, but was there ever some question that its collapse might have been figurative?? (What they really meant was "The freeway fucking collapsed!")

Any Jamie Oliver tv show.

It's deliberate but it's so awesome I don't care:

when i was younger, there was no such thing as irony, and if there was, no decent person had ever heard of it. now--its irony in the shower, irony for breakfast, irony in your afternoon nap. irony has literally kidnapped everything good and decent and tied it to a chair and literally beaten it.

-- max, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 06:33 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

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“It is time for him to explain how eight years of deregulation policies have brought us to this dangerous ground,” Mr. Reid said. “And most importantly, it is time for him to explain how his plan — drafted literally under cover of darkness — will help America weather this storm.”

My colleague claimed to be literally on fire today.

She also uses 'to be brutally honest' for very mundane inoffensive truths.

I thought people had stopped doing this? I don't think I've heard anyone misuse literally in like 5 years.

I was literally glued to my seat

My favourite example of this stems from when a high school teacher told my class that if we didn't remember.... something or other... we'd be literally throwing marks down the drain. There was a guy in the class called Mark.

I remember a physics gcse class many years ago where my teacher told us that if we didn't do X in the exam, we'd literally be throwing marks down the drain.

There was a guy in the class called Mark and the idea of throwing him (and others like him obv.) down a drain was rather appealing.

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my teacher told us that if we didn't do X in the exam, we'd literally be throwing marks down the drain.

This is liberal schooling gone too far

especially when they've gone Euro

Popjustice says that the new Britney single is "literally quite good."

I've literally never heard anyone criticise this misuse before. I've literally said literally like this on purpose so many times that I literally sometimes use it in the wrong context on purpose. It's literally a pain in the face.

I meant to document this last week, but on CNN last Friday before the presidential debate, some commentator said that John McCain is going to have to literally reach out of the television and embrace the Americans watching the debate.

Man, that was a close one.

I seriously don't know if I could've literally held my shit together if a thing like that happened.

i hate it when words are literally misused, hehe

Joe Biden uses this literally--and I mean literally--every day.

what does "quite literally" mean, though? "actually literally" or "completely literally"?

that copy reads like: "hey, look, we're using 'literally' in the literal sense here, not figuratively as an intensive."

'you would be surprised how literally'

literally literally

what does it mean to literally raise the bar

The bar, it is in the air. When once it was on the ground.

Problem is that if you do read that sentence with 'literally raising the bar' actually being literal, it stops making sense. 'We're quite literally raising the bar' is fine. Adding '...on what flying should be' only makes sense if you're being figurative.

"We are serving you alcohol while in the air on what flying should be"? Nope.

"Our booze is served during the journey on what flying should be"? Nuh-uh.

"Look how high our drinks are on what flying should be"? Noooooo.

maybe there is a giant immobilizing metal bar resting on one of their planes and "what flying should be" is yodaspeak for "what should be flying"

it makes sense, but it's pretty corny... reminds me of some bad pun Bob Saget would use on America's Funniest Home Videos. i read it like "we're literally raising the bar! on what flying should be". cue goofy music and canned audience laughter as a drunk passenger stumbles around and vomits on an old lady.

* laughs *

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPz4mKHd0FE

The thing is that when I hear the world 'literally' used like this in the wild, person is nearly always saying something enthusiastic, impressed, excited or good humoured

i thought this was a good one. there is a hotel in boston whose restaurant is called the ruby room, and suitably the decor is all red. the section for corporate events is headed:

Meetings that will have you seeing red. Well, not literally.

so precisely and completely wrong, really an accomplishment

idk you could be blind & irascible

Palm trees, ivory beaches and a languid lifestyle: to outsiders, the South Pacific lives up to its paradise image. But the islanders themselves are weighed down by problems – literally. The region has the world's highest obesity rates, along with associated chronic diseases.

it means "listen to me"

literally one month ago

https://ig.me/am8rz2YnB48osC

The misuse of "literally" is most often an attempt at hyperbole, in the mistaken belief that overstating the truth makes one's misstatements stronger and more persuasive.

LITERALLY vs ACTUALLY vs Just say it vs Shut up

posters itt are literally cops

literal lol