The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy

Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by compiler-guy on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:00PM (#38040243)

Linguists call this usage, “the emphatic literally” and the best writers of the past 300 years have used it.

So if it’s good enough for Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Vladimir Nabokov, and David Foster Wallace, then it’s good enough for me. Literally.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/the-300-year-history-of-using...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by JohnFen on Friday October 27, 2023 @03:56PM (#38043149)

I wouldn't mind that use of the word if there were a different word available that meant "literally literally".

[ Parent | on HN ]