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[TheDude]

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?

 

[HIBred]

my thoughts are that it is obvious that you are literally way too bored and you need to install cod4 again.

 

[TheDude]

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.

So i'm taking it out in stupid rants about grammar.

 

[BriAn79]

Sorry Dude, I'm going to have to literally take Gary's side on this one..

Hope your girlfriend stays safe though!

 

[NickHouston]

This annoys me aswell.

But what annoys me even more is when teenaged girls(mostly) say things like "ignorant" in place of rude. They are two totally different words with two totally different meanings.

Ex. A guy doesn't hold the door open for her. She says: "OMG you're so ignorant" instead of something that makes sense: "You're so rude"

Also, when they feel the need to strengthen their statement with "legit". "OMG I legit just died"

 

[TheDude]

yea. I find it hard to argue with teen girls because they just resort to smirking and saying things like that.

 

[PwnSauce]

My thoughts, if you literally have nothing more important to concern yourself with than with the word selection of others you're life is mercifully uncomplicated.

 

[TheDude]

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[The Moment]

I always like replacing literally with figuratively in people's sentences.

"It is figuratively freezing outside!"

 

[AVC]

her stupid fucking boss is making her stay.

Do you mean that bit literally?

 

[WaLLy]

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face!!!!!!!

 

[Joe Momma]

I think you are bitching about nothing

 

[Jack]

I mess up my English and grammar on purpose, mainly because one of my best friends was a grammar Nazi, so I became the opposite just to spite him. it literally pissed him of....

 

[animal66]

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[HIBred]

......literally