yeah, overuse of "literally" bugs me to no end.
I could LITERALLY CHOKE THE LIFE out of the next person I hear who uses it uncorrectly.
Raise your hand if 'ew.'
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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Nora Deirdre - Dec 15, 2009 4:30:15 pm PST #3836 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Laura - Dec 15, 2009 4:30:57 pm PST #3837 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Eeep, hope it is a cheap fix, Ginger. Do you have the kind of charger that you leave on all night to give it a good charge?
I think batteries have a shorter life down here. It seems like I have replaced too many of them.
Aims - Dec 15, 2009 4:34:14 pm PST #3838 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
A troop is made up of soldiers.
Or Boy Scouts.
Or Girl Scouts!!
DavidS - Dec 15, 2009 4:35:12 pm PST #3839 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
::orders up a batch of t-shirts saying, "I will CUT YOU if you misuse 'literally' in a sentence!"::
Ginger - Dec 15, 2009 4:38:52 pm PST #3840 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That would be t-shirts saying:
"I will literally cut you if you misuse literally."
DavidS - Dec 15, 2009 4:39:47 pm PST #3841 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Don't you need quotes on the second "literally"?
billytea - Dec 15, 2009 4:41:06 pm PST #3842 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
My current peeve is using reign in place of rein, e.g. "he was given free reign".
The pronoun confusion isn't an issue in Chinese. They have their own wackiness, but grammar tends to be a lot easier. There's little to no declension of nouns or conjugation of verbs; most words don't even distinguish between singular and plural.
tommyrot - Dec 15, 2009 4:43:19 pm PST #3843 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hopefully, no one ever literally completely destroys something by literally decimating it.
Zenkitty - Dec 15, 2009 4:44:17 pm PST #3844 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Huh. I knew "troop" mean a bunch of soldiers, like platoon, but I thought when the news said "three troops were deployed" that they really meant three *groups of soldiers.* Why would they deploy three people? Deployment is kind of a big deal, isn't it?
Hil R. - Dec 15, 2009 4:46:33 pm PST #3845 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think I've more often heard "three troops were killed" than "three troops were deployed."