Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to Price Anything

Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by platevoltage on Sunday August 31, 2025 @12:33AM (#45080393)

Is it weird that I get more worked up about the misuse of "literally" than your use of a slur?

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by tbossanova on Sunday August 31, 2025 @12:40AM (#45080422)

What’s the misuse here?

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by jibal on Sunday August 31, 2025 @01:02AM (#45080504)

It depends on which definition of the word is being used. For the informal one, "very foolish or stupid", it's literally true.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by tbossanova on Sunday August 31, 2025 @03:25AM (#45081125)

I’m still not sure what the misuse is. “Literally” is now commonly used as an intensifier, like how “awesome “ used to mean inspiring awe, including if you were scared of something, and now is mostly an intensifier. Awesome, dude!

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by jibal on Sunday August 31, 2025 @06:00AM (#45081938)

C'mon ... you know what "misuse" refers to, even if it's no longer considered to literally be a misuse.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by tbossanova on Monday September 08, 2025 @09:05PM (#45176188)

Haha nice meta-usage of literally there

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by bongodongobob on Sunday August 31, 2025 @04:08PM (#45086609)

I don't know, what do you call a full grown adult that reads at a 6th grade level and can't interpret a basic graph? 60% of America.

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