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Is there anyone here willing to own up to using the word literally when they don't mean it?
I do it literally 12 times a day.
If so...do you get snippy if someone asks if that's what you really meant (especially when it's obvious you didn't?)?
And no.
Also note similar (but less annoying?) use of "really."
Ever since Rob Lowe on "Parks & Rec", I think I have removed "literally" from my vocabulary except the once a month when I do mean it as advertised.
I abuse "really" like it is $2 mule.
I use "totally" in the same way. So I am annoying, ungrammatical AND a throwback to the '80s.
I'm bad with "actually" and "really," but I've been making an effort not to use literally unless I mean it. Not too successfully, I should add.
Literally, really, totally, actually, I use ALL THE ADVERBS. Strunk and White hate me.
I am sure I misuse literally sometimes. I make other grammar errors too.
If so...do you get snippy if someone asks if that's what you really meant (especially when it's obvious you didn't?)?
No, but now that I teach writing, I make every effort to suppress correcting people's spoken grammar errors. I find it makes people defensive--perhaps since they associate me with teaching and grammar?--and usually when I'm speaking to someone I don't want to make them defensive.
I use "totally" in the same way. So I am annoying, ungrammatical AND a throwback to the '80s.
As in "We totally went to the pier"? I do that all the time. Based on my spoken English, no one should EVER believe I get paid to edit.
I STILL speak to the dog in LOLCAT.
Do you put on a funny accent when you speak LOLCAT? Because I do when I am talking to my cat!