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Panurge stands his ground on a now-popular position

OdradekOdradek
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I don't CARE how many people use it as an intensifier or what usage came first, "literally" is still a more useful word the other way.

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  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    As a person who supports specificity in word usage and meaning, I support the use of "literally" to refer to a clarification that a description is not metaphorical but the component pieces are truly specifically present.
  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    edited 2015-02-13 01:02:14
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    I'm pretty ambivalent about the whole thing in all honesty. 
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    who cares
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Some of us literally do, while the internet figuratively does.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    I care about "literally" so so much.

    It is one of my convictions.

    It's so great to have a word that means what "literally" means.  Physical, true, real, not metaphorical in any way.

    Literally is my word, and you can't have it.
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    Magic Jane said:

    who cares


  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Aliroz said:

    I care about "literally" so so much.

    It is one of my convictions.

    It's so great to have a word that means what "literally" means.  Physical, true, real, not metaphorical in any way.

    Literally is my word, and you can't have it.


  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Corvidium said:

    Magic Jane said:

    who cares


    I do.
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    it is impossible for a word to retain that meaning undiluted for an extended period of time

    i mean, look at what tumblr's done to "actual"
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    The definition of words can change over time. This happens and is unavoidable.

    However, if "literally" doesn't mean what it used to mean then I wonder what word I should use if I wish to invoke the old meaning.
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    Oh no, my precious word meaning 'true' has become an intensifier!


    What shall we do if we can't use very in its original sense anymore?
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    "True" Is too vague.
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    Panurge said:

    "True" Is too vague.

    Well, I was doing that so as not to give it away

    Similarly: really, truly....
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Really is an intensifier.

    Truly doesn't seem to fit right.
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    Panurge said:

    Really is an intensifier.



    It is now.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Yes, I know that you have ruined really, truly, verily, but that was before I was alive.

    I live now, and Literally is my word, and you can't have it.
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    This too will pass.
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    I don't usually like xkcd, but

    image
  • FossilmaidenFossilmaiden
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Aliroz said:

    Yes, I know that you have ruined really, truly, verily, but that was before I was alive.

    I live now, and Literally is my word, and you can't have it.

    So was Literally.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Fossilmaiden said:

    Aliroz said:

    Yes, I know that you have ruined really, truly, verily, but that was before I was alive.

    I live now, and Literally is my word, and you can't have it.

    So was Literally.
    It is my word and you can't have it.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    "really" as an intensifier is not acceptable in formal usage anyway.
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    it was literally real big like
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    no more negative thought

    negative thought enters your mind and you acknowledge it

    and then you remove it from your world
  • MorvenMorven
    I wonder what it is that makes us constantly take words that mean "100% accurate" and turn them into eventually meaningless intensifiers.

    I guess it's the urge to bullshit.
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    people like figurative language and what better way to be ironic than to use the word meaning not figurative in figurative language
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    No, I think it's more like this. People use the words to establish the truth of something, that it actually happened. It then gets re-interpreted as a way to emphasize the truth of something, and from then to an intensifier.
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