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People really over use the word 'literally' now a days

purbeast0

purbeast0

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And it grinds my damn gears. Why must people add 'literally' before explaining what they are doing?

"I was driving to work today and I literally saw 3 near accidents."

OH THANKS FOR SAYING LITERALLY HAD YOU NOT I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT YOU MEANT 1 OR 2!

Please everyone stop using literally in every damn sentence. It adds nothing and isn't necessary.

I expect to see literally in literally every reply to this thread.

Literally.
 
purbeast0 said:
And it grinds my damn gears. Why must people add 'literally' before explaining what they are doing?

"I was driving to work today and I literally saw 3 near accidents."

OH THANKS FOR SAYING LITERALLY HAD YOU NOT I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT YOU MEANT 1 OR 2!

Please everyone stop using literally in every damn sentence. It adds nothing and isn't necessary.

I expect to see literally in literally every reply to this thread.

Literally.
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It probably wasn't even 3. Maybe literally 1, at best.
 
What annoys me more is people literally insisting that literally mean figuratively, and that their bad grammar is excused by 'Language is a living thing'.
 
You guys are slipping
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People have literally been using "literally" as an intensifier for centuries now. And by people, I literally mean authors like Dickens, Nabokov and Fitzgerald.
 
My younger daughter does this when she's annoyed and it never fails to bother me.

Keep in mind however that English definitions of words "as used" in actual conversation change frequently.
 
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YES thank you, finally I've heard someone else say this is dumb. I've noticed this annoying overuse of "literally" starting a couple years ago, or something like that (people didn't use it like that when I was in high school or college, for example).

Ugh it makes the speaker sound so f'ing stupid.
 
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