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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by joegahona on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:51AM (#34247980)
Very well done! Is there a word for when you use a word in the excruciatingly correct way but are guaranteed to misguide 99% of the audience who reads it?
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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by rightbyte on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:55AM (#34248052)
"Literally", which is such a word itself.
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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by manojlds on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:00PM (#34248129)
99% literally use literally wrong though.
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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by amarento on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:54PM (#34248944)
And the converse of "Literally" is, or should be, "Illiterally", I think, I don't know, literally.
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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by scrumper on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @01:31PM (#34249474)
M-x mansplain-pedant-mode

It's "figuratively" or, more... literally, "metaphorically."

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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by 93po on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:00PM (#34249835)
pretty sure it was a joke
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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by shkkmo on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:27PM (#34250174)
I would consider the converse of "literally" to be "figuratively".

"Literally" literally means "literally", but figuratively now means "figuratively".

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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by purpleblue on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:20PM (#34250084)
"Deprecate" is a great example of this. Everyone gets it wrong, but no one seems to care.

Deprecate means "to continue supporting but to discourage its use." 99% of people believe it means to end support.

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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by shkkmo on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:25PM (#34250147)
Really? I see that word used correctly more often than not, but I guess it depends on what projects you work with.
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