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Re:iPhone X by stephenr on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:05AM (#15236370)
> Literally

I literally think you don't know what that word means.

Edit: David Cross explains this point better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ly1UTgiBXM

Re:iPhone X by Jaruzel on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:17AM (#15236442)
From the OED:

  Literally (informal): Used for emphasis while not being literally true.
Re:iPhone X by imron on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:06AM (#15236644)
It means figuratively ;-)
Re:iPhone X by tomsthumb on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @09:33PM (#15244333)
It literally doesn't :)
Re:iPhone X by imron on Thursday September 14, 2017 @03:55AM (#15245798)
It's literally been used that way for centuries [0].

Consider:

1. It's been used like this for centuries

2. By well-known writers including Dickens, Twain, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Brontë

3. The definition of such usage is included in all major dictionaries

4. It's incredibly common in real-life use of the language

To somehow insist that it doesn't mean that, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, requires extraordinary feats of denial.

0: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...