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Originally Posted by heep223
As soon as they suggested a All-Canadian division for re-alignment, I stopped reading. That is literally the worst idea I've ever heard. Yes, literally.
PS to whichever mod is having a laugh, may as well add "literally" to the "could care less", so I can start collecting misused colloquialisms....sheesh a guy makes one mistake...  |
The tremedous mis use of the word literally has actually now been changed in the dictionary. So.. I think your ok either way now???
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/living...ly-definition/
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This is going to give grammarians a headache, literalists a migraine and language nerds a nervous breakdown.
The definition of literally is no longer the literal definition of literally.Alas, poor literally . . .
Gizmodo has discovered Google's definition for literally includes this: "Used to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling."
But it doesn't end with Google.
Merriam-Wesbter and Cambridge dictionaries have also added the informal, non-literal definition.
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