::orders up a batch of t-shirts saying, "I will CUT YOU if you misuse 'literally' in a sentence!"::
Yes. Lucky for you, people may be in danger.
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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."
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."
Zenkitty - Dec 15, 2009 4:48:06 pm PST #3846 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
You know what I just realized? You can't completely destroy something by decimating it. If you literally decimated a big bunch of somethings, and then decimated what was left, and then decimated it some more, eventually you'd end up with fewer than ten somethings, and you'd be required to, say, massacre instead.
-t - Dec 15, 2009 4:49:13 pm PST #3847 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's like the Zeno's paradox of destruction.
tommyrot - Dec 15, 2009 4:49:22 pm PST #3848 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.
You can't completely destroy something by decimating it.
That's right.
I wonder if they made soldiers who wanted to decimate take math classes....