Okay. This is a pet peeve. But mostly it's just stupid people.
If I said "I literally had to stay up for 10 hours to finish that homework" and "I had to stay up for 10 hours to finish that homework"
What I just said has EXACTLY the same meaning. There is absolutely NO DIFFERENCE in meaning WHATSOEVER.
However, if I said "my son had to come over and lend me a hand" and "my son had to come over and literally lend me a hand"
Those two things mean ENTIRELY different things.
Literally is NOT a synonym for "really" as in "I really had to walk 20 miles." If you say "I literally had to walk 20 miles," you are talking like an uneducated person.
What is so annoying to me is that news anchors and reporters CONSISTENTLY do this. Sometimes they even say "literally" after an idiom (which is the correct usage) but obviously that's not what they meant. For instance, "we LITERALLY had to break a leg to get here on time, before it started raining." Really? You literally just broke your leg so you could get here on time? How did you pass english? You dumb piece of shit.
But things like "The wind is literally blowing harder than I've ever seen it!"
"Literally 2000 people died!"
They just happen too much.
What are your thoughts on this?
If I said "I literally had to stay up for 10 hours to finish that homework" and "I had to stay up for 10 hours to finish that homework"
What I just said has EXACTLY the same meaning. There is absolutely NO DIFFERENCE in meaning WHATSOEVER.
However, if I said "my son had to come over and lend me a hand" and "my son had to come over and literally lend me a hand"
Those two things mean ENTIRELY different things.
Literally is NOT a synonym for "really" as in "I really had to walk 20 miles." If you say "I literally had to walk 20 miles," you are talking like an uneducated person.
What is so annoying to me is that news anchors and reporters CONSISTENTLY do this. Sometimes they even say "literally" after an idiom (which is the correct usage) but obviously that's not what they meant. For instance, "we LITERALLY had to break a leg to get here on time, before it started raining." Really? You literally just broke your leg so you could get here on time? How did you pass english? You dumb piece of shit.
But things like "The wind is literally blowing harder than I've ever seen it!"
"Literally 2000 people died!"
They just happen too much.
What are your thoughts on this?
yea. I'm also just pissed that my girlfriend is at work during this hurricane and she's not safe, and the storm is getting stronger, and her stupid fucking boss is making her stay.
