There’s a difference between coining a new word and misusing one that has a very specific meaning.
Are you suggesting his use of the word “except” was incorrect? I don’t see that. He writes (as you quoted):
How is that incorrect Professor?
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Except, literally, they are synonyms.
Here, you can be wrong 2 different ways in one reply!!!
prescriptivism is boring and for nerds, sorry
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I literally had to come in here and literally laugh at this thread. I literally enjoyed the craziness of such a literal request.
Literally, you guys have a great day. Literally.
cackles and wiggles toes , literally
Yeah I’m sure there will be tons of childish responses, but it is dumb. Like did they literally die inside, or literally roll on the floor laughing,or literally eat your baby up, no. I know I shouldn’t let me annoy me but it has become as annoying as simp. Literally means literally, not kind of, not partially, exactly.
MW is a descriptive dictionary. I already covered that.
Seriously, did you read the posts or just . . . I dunno . . . skim them.
Descriptive dictionaries don’t present word meanings that are definitive. They present word meanings as used.
Pretty much all it takes to get included is two published, edited works that misuse a word in a given way.
There was a Metalocalypse episode where Murderface kept saying “literally” and they would call him out, then he’d be all like “well not literally” >< I wanted to find it on youtube because in my world it would be a no 1 meme on the use of the word.
I’m literally at work and have been all day. I don’t have any time to put literal thought into this literal cesspool of nonsense.
But is it not a synonym for actually? I literally died laughing, and I actually died laughing mean the same thing…?
Also its not always misused, I’m literally so hungry right now is a perfectly fine sentence, if one is hungry. I’m literally starving right now wouldn’t be of course, but it’s more of a misuse of the state of being starving than the use of the word Literally.
I’m from Cali so I literally use the word all the time. Like just the other day, I literally used it 3 times with my guildies; “Wow this tank doesn’t know how to pull I’m literally so upset right now” “Wow this new legendary is like 500 dps increase i’m literally shooketh”
“Alliance literally only wins a third of bgs this is ridiculous”
Why? If they are using a word in a way that is an improper use of the word, such as “I literally got cancer reading that”, then it’s an error in their English. As an English teacher you should understand that. If it’s something that happens in-game, then it has a place on the forums.
This isn’t an improper use of the word.
When you tell someone to stop doing something, especially on the internet they are more likely to do it even more lmao.
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so using a word for the wrong definition isn’t an improper use of the word? Then what is? Did anyone pay attention in school?
It can be used to exaggerate if it is implied that way.
we’re not the French. we don’t have an English language body that decides what’s right or wrong. there are style guides and there’s convention, but language changes. words mean what people believe they mean.
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In the most literal sense, the use of ‘literally’ means that you are literally obnoxious.
I would literally never do that
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Agreed. This is literally the worst thing a person can do.
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