What were you THINKING?

[bobsmom101]

@Sylvanz Oh yeah, just like chomping on a wad of aluminum foil. It is to cringe.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@ASL_v2.0

Yep. Sylvanz is being a real word-Oppenheimer.

Now I am become Death, LITERALLY the destroyer of worlds.

[Atamasama]

Not if we’re literally talking about “Hitlers”.

[Max_S]

@Sylvanz

I am a grandma, but I am not your grandma. So straiten up and show some respect…jr.
Just to be clear, and seriously. Was that supposed to be an insult?

Nothing against grandmas here. I think you got the message, +1 if “straiten” was intentional.

~Max

[Babale]

@Sylvanz

I really dislike, “Hoooha COMMON SENSE!!!111”

And yet…

@Sylvanz

This person is obvs talking about john hitler in Brazil. Not adolph hitler who killed millions and used language very similar to the poison immigrants thing. Good to know.

So “common sense, duh” is only fine when you do it.

[Babale]

@bobsmom101

Come on, y’all. The problem is that we had a perfectly good word, figuratively, “used to indicate a departure from a literal use of words, metaphorically.” If the vernacular replaces “figuratively” with what is essentially its opposite, what word are we going to use when we literally mean “literally?” ISTM to be sloppy thinking.

Your problem is the assumption that “literally” is being used to mean “figuratively”. It is not. It is being used as an intensifier. “They make my head figuratively explode” does not work as an intensifier.

[bobsmom101]

@Babale

Your problem is the assumption that “literally” is being used to mean “figuratively”. It is not. It is being used as an intensifier. “They make my head figuratively explode” does not work as an intensifier.

No, the intensifier du jour is fucking. As in “They make my head fucking explode.”

My “problem” is that I’ve been watching outtakes of DJT’s performance at CPAC and I’m in a really pissy mood.

[ASL_v2.0]

@bobsmom101

No, the intensifier du jour is fucking. As in “They make my head fucking explode.”

You know who else made people’s heads fucking explode?

[needscoffee]

@bobsmom101

The problem is that we had a perfectly good word, figuratively, “used to indicate a departure from a literal use of words, metaphorically.” If the vernacular replaces “figuratively” with what is essentially its opposite, what word are we going to use when we literally mean “literally?” ISTM to be sloppy thinking.

And this is why I hate the use of “literally” to mean “figuratively”. Now there is literally no word that means “literally”.

[Joey_P]

@ASL_v2.0

You know who else made people’s heads fucking explode?

Walter White?

[Slithy_Tove]

Literally Adolphin Hitler

[Sylvanz]

Nope. My mistake. I freely admit my mistakes in spelling, grammar, and word use.

[Babale]

@needscoffee

Now there is literally no word that means “literally”.

Literally literally still means literally.

[Babale]

I also don’t buy that any of you are literally confused when people use “literally” in this way. Rather, these complaints are an expression of this sentiment:

[Sylvanz]

OK, if that is common sense I suppose.

I, however, didn’t claim it was,“common sense.” I think common sense is a vague if handy way to blow people off. I said that it seemed pretty obvious to at least me, I guess, that if we’re claiming someone is an authoritarian dictator named hitler, we’re probably talking about the famous guy.

[Sylvanz]

Scanners, that’s who, and that was pretty literal too. In a movie way.

[Sylvanz]

I don’t recall anyone agin’ the arguably incorrect use of literally as confusing. Irritating and incorrect, but not confusing.
I really hate it when my posts line up like that.

[CairoCarol]

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

Now I am become Death, LITERALLY the destroyer of worlds.

Wait, wasn’t that supposed to be “destroyer of words”?

[Babale]

@Sylvanz

I, however, didn’t claim it was,“common sense.” I think common sense is a vague if handy way to blow people off. I said that it seemed pretty obvious to at least me,

I don’t see much daylight between “X is common sense” and “X seemed pretty obvious, at least to me”. I used the phrase “common sense” because I felt it echoed the same sentiment invoked by “seemed pretty obvious”.

[Moriarty]

@needscoffee

Now there is literally no word that means “literally”.

Actually…