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Re:Git pissed by jlgreco on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @07:19PM (#6324536)
Maybe. It is possible that the word is used sarcastically more often than literally though. For instance, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that the word "literally" may actually be used more often to mean "not literally".
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Re:Git pissed by joshschreuder on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @09:03PM (#6324910)
'Literally' is already in the OED as 'not literally': http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10240917/Uproar-as-OED-...
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Re:Git pissed by leephillips on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @10:10PM (#6325156)
Indeed! http://lee-phillips.org/literallyEgregious/
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