I don't know if I actually use "literally" (I totally overuse "actually" and probably "totally") when I am not being literal, but I'm not ideologically opposed to it. I do generally get snippy at the drop of a hat, so for that part of the question, probably so.
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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-t - Jun 13, 2012 8:01:18 am PDT #9491 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
DavidS - Jun 13, 2012 8:08:47 am PDT #9492 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't misuse "literally." And in my mind "totally" is usually accompanied with air quotes, and a Valley Girl accent. Though if I'm talking to Emmett we will use the I Love You, Man approved "Totes Magotes" instead.
My worst verbal tics are "you know" and "kind of" and when I'm being interviewed on the radio or for a story I have to consciously pause and formulate my sentences for a millisecond before I reply to eliminate them.
I would never correct somebody's grammar. That would be rude. But if they're somebody I know and like I will mock them to their face. It's a sign of affection.
Steph L. - Jun 13, 2012 8:27:42 am PDT #9493 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
My worst verbal tics
I cannot excise "like" from my spoken English. As in "Steve grabbed the book, and he was like 'This is a better movie!' and I was like 'It's totally a better movie!'"
It's a plague. I try to stop and then it totally creeps back in.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 13, 2012 8:28:12 am PDT #9494 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Totes creeps back in.
tommyrot - Jun 13, 2012 8:32:28 am PDT #9495 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Jun 13, 2012 8:34:00 am PDT #9496 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Burrell - Jun 13, 2012 8:37:55 am PDT #9497 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I was like 'It's totally a better movie!'
Yeah, yeah, I overuse 'like' too. It even grates on me when *I* do it, and yet I say this all the time!
I feel like I'm channelling Janice the Muppet: Like ya know, for sure, REALLY! ::tosses hair out of eyes::
§ ita § - Jun 13, 2012 8:40:37 am PDT #9498 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have to rank literally as a pretty poor intensifier, because it's like setting the volume to 11. I'm deaf now, it doesn't matter anymore.
I am not doing today well. I'd really really like a redo of everything except that great fic I read before work. Well, technically, redoing that wouldn't be bad either--it's just that everything else should change.
-t - Jun 13, 2012 8:42:08 am PDT #9499 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
As in "Steve grabbed the book, and he was like 'This is a better movie!' and I was like 'It's totally a better movie!'"
I have a lot of fondness for that usage. Also the similar application of "all". As in "so I was all, 'I have to see what book they're talking about' but I didn't want to interrupt."
Jesse - Jun 13, 2012 8:43:12 am PDT #9500 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ditto with the "was like" and "was all" to mean "said."
I just had the thing where I saw someone in the hallway and went, "CRAP! You need something from me. What is it?"