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Re:Refusal after Refusal by anon2775 on Monday December 03, 2018 @11:02PM (#18596111)
The word "literally" is misused, unnecessary and annoying.
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Re:Refusal after Refusal by pmiller2 on Monday December 03, 2018 @11:43PM (#18596344)
Unnecessary? Only in the sense that my sentence works without the word. It's a rhetorical device.

Annoying? You must be easily annoyed.

But, misused? Not if you agree with definition 3 on dictionary.com: "actually; without exaggeration or inaccuracy." [0]

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[0]: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/literally

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Re:Refusal after Refusal by trippypig on Thursday December 06, 2018 @11:44AM (#18619597)
I should have know better than to use THAT word on the internet. How silly of me.
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Re:Refusal after Refusal by mtVessel on Monday December 03, 2018 @11:44PM (#18596350)
Except in this case, where it is required to distinguish the sentence being true in a literal, as opposed to figurative, sense.
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