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What word or term annonys you?
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im still a bit salty about 'literally'
also the constant failure to say 'i could not care less' correctly
I don’t mind people using “literally” to refer to things that they don’t literally mean because that’s just perfectly normal exaggeration.
What I hate is that the dictionary definition changed to formalize the nonliteral meaning as a literal meaning.
I literally could not care less about literally. MANY words over time end up meaning the opposite of what they did, its just the nature of how humans use language. I love that we've seen this change happen right in front of us.
Eeh, you have a point, but on the other hand, if the word meaning "literally" no longer means "literally" then we need a new definitive term for the concept.
And we don't have one. We just have a word that is becoming more ambiguous every year
I don't appreciate the revenge 😭 (I do)
congratulations
I presume you must've seen em all Lucy
im just so happy you also have opinions. congrats
That never bothered me all too much. Then yesterday i watched a video on youtube to kinda doze off. Dude made some insane stuff in Minecraft. Now i usually don't really watch these videos or Minecraft videos in general. But the production value, time and effort that went into it was beyond everything i have seen so far. The usage of the word literally kept me awake. Every time i had to flinch and at some point i had to turn it off, despite my interest.
RIP "literally"
I thought "I could care less" was a sarcastic way of saying "I couldn't care less".
You could remove 99.9% of instances of “literally” and it wouldn’t change the meaning of the sentence at all. It’s just like “um” by now.