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An irritating habit of people lately is the misuse of the word literally.
Anyone notice how people are getting in the habit of saying it all the time even though it is inappropriate??It is becoming another "absolutely" and it's pathetic.
They'll say something like "he literally blew up at me" which would mean he exploded in her direction which isn't likely.
This word is meant to emphasise that it really happened a particular way as opposed to an exaggeration or a saying.
It makes me cringe inside everytime I hear it being misused yet again by the stupid sheep :roll:
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Swift obsessor wrote:An irritating habit of people lately is the misuse of the word literally.
Anyone notice how people are getting in the habit of saying it all the time even though it is inappropriate??It is becoming another "absolutely" and it's pathetic.
Absolutely, I agree, literally.
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Swift obsessor wrote: They'll say something like "he literally blew up at me" which would mean he exploded in her direction which isn't likely.
It's not likely but it is possible. :P
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MAN 18.310 wrote:
Swift obsessor wrote:An irritating habit of people lately is the misuse of the word literally.
Anyone notice how people are getting in the habit of saying it all the time even though it is inappropriate??It is becoming another "absolutely" and it's pathetic.
Absolutely, I agree, literally.
I was about to right something one the lines of that :lol: (until I saw you bet me to it :twisted:
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I used to work in an office where everyone seemed to develop and copy the habit of opening a conversation by saying, "You know what?...".

After awhile, this began to drive me up the wall, so at the first opportunity I couldn't resist pointing this out to my manager who was the worst culprit in this regard, and he actually agreed with me, admitting that members of his own family had raised that very subject. I think it's just a case of "lazy mouth".

It's true that people under stress tend to become repetitive. I've lost count of the interviews I've seen--including prominent people--where they can't help but lapse into peppering their dialog with "ya know" and "like".

Like...ya know...cut it out already! :roll:
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I was sitting down for a quiet drink with Axle Whitehead a couple of weeks ago along with some of my mates, and we were reminicsing over his recent interview with Paris Hilton which he did for Video Hits. She is a big user of words such as "like" and "sooo" during her sentences.

As he put it so nicely "She is one very spare woman."
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I've been trying to improve my language skills by speaking more formally and avoiding works such as 'like' and 'um'
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