Literally

To say that a thing "fell apart" meaning it decentralized, lost all organization, and scatterd is a level of abstraction I an willing to accept as very close to reality. yrmv.

this literally drives me up the wall when people do this

que voulez vous

http://www.chrisgenoa.com/archives/ex3lady2.jpg

wait, that's literally the ceiling

my bad

this literally drives me up the wall when people do this

Tell me is something eluding you, sunshine?
Is this not what you expected to see?

anyway guys, how do you know these people aren't just using the word 'littorally' in a non-literal manner

I for one am a big fan of clicking the litoris.

"We really can't afford, literally, to be locking people up unnecessarily, ineffectually and so pointlessly. More on less would be a saner approach," he says.

maybe they literally can't afford it? prison costs are spiralling.

yeah what is wrong with that?

i mean there is literally nothing wrong with it

Their policy of locking people up ineffectually might need looking at. Bigger locks guys.

literally can't afford bigger locks, that's the problem.

literally bigger locks are expensive
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:W6HiNodAoWqerM:http://lh5.ggpht.com/_u1pYVqsbTG0/RvPBtZbgYDI/AAAAAAAABWM/rgUR9uj5MDg/DelhiDarshan%2B051.jpg

Just get smaller prisoners?

Children come cheap innit

i refer you to the fake baby thread.

anyway, denying the child labour market valuable resources imo

unless- we can get child prisoners to work somehow. hmmmm.

Just heard someone talking about the ring around Saturn which they've just recorded the existence of, on radio 4: said ring proves a hypothesis about one of Saturn's moons. I didn't hear the details of the hypothesis because I was too busy marvelling at the description of the several-million-miles-across ring as being "literally the smoking gun"

i watched a documentary film the other night where the smoking gun was literally in the ring around uranus

When I saw that story about Saturn this morning, I literally thought "I bet some people will be disappointed it's not Uranus"

happy literally as long as it's not mars

"Exactly."

actually

rectally

ah i see, i was looking at it as ...literally locking people... up, my bad

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-08/jones-chastises-critics-of-advertisers/4300268

"These people, through literally clogging up phone lines, email systems, Facebook and everything else, they really are making it in some cases almost impossible for these businesses to continue to function," he said.

From this news item about a woman mistakenly identified as pregnant by an airline - "my jaw literally fell on the floor"

(implied "literally"?)

This condition is becoming particularly severe for the group that economists call younger millennials: the young adults who entered the job market in the wake of the recession, a period in which the unemployment rate among 20- to 24-year-olds reached 17 percent, when graduate school competition grew more fierce and credit standards tightened. Many also saw their parents struggle through a pay cut, a job loss or another economic disruption during the recession.

These troubles, many economists fear, left serious scars, and not just psychic ones.

I was just thinking, if you "literally dwarf" someone, does that mean you turn them into a dwarf?

http://oi43.tinypic.com/9ulzlu.jpg

cool

WHAT

i just literally shit my pants at that

and i mean that literally

as in, i feel very strongly about that

Usage Note: For more than a hundred years, critics have remarked on the incoherency of using literally in a way that suggests the exact opposite of its primary sense of "in a manner that accords with the literal sense of the words." In 1926, for example, H.W. Fowler cited the example "The 300,000 Unionists ... will be literally thrown to the wolves." The practice does not stem from a change in the meaning of literally itself--if it did, the word would long since have come to mean "virtually" or "figuratively" but from a natural tendency to use the word as a general intensive, as in They had literally no help from the government on the project, where no contrast with the figurative sense of the words is intended.

I am literally tearing the skin off of my face and throwing it at the computer screen

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/literally?s=t

literally an intensive

descriptivists win again!
http://www.hdwpapers.com/thumbs/charlie_brown_happy_wallpaper-t2.jpg

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/6E6B8B4E-D25F-4130-A55D-701988CB912F-339-0000001A8A9067BA_zps3fd3354a.jpg

sweet domain name tho

aa.com/literallyflybetter

they used it correctly!

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'