Amanda Unvarnished

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Amanda CAARSON

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The dictionary is caving and listing “literally” as meaning “actually”, “in effect” or “virtually” along with the original meaning and I completely resent this caving.

Militant wing of Toastmasters, rise up! (don’t tell me there isn’t a militant wing of Toastmasters I know there is you’all are just hiding it).

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  1. BongoBaggins ?
    BongoBaggins ?

    @arush Language evolves. I know it’s annoying but people are stupid and we have to get used to that. There is a Chrome extension which will change every occurrence of ‘literally’ to ‘figuratively’, and it’s rarely wong ?

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  2. SteveSawczyn
    SteveSawczyn

    @arush That literally made me laugh. Literally as in the old definition. 🙂

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  3. martinfeld
    martinfeld

    @arush As much as it annoys me to hear the word used that way, it’s the evolution of language in action. Indeed, the words that I am writing now wouldn’t exist without it. ?

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