Re^5: poll ideas quest 2015

in reply to Re^4: poll ideas quest 2015
in thread poll ideas quest 2015

Unfortunately, the forces of common usage have demoted literally from a useful word to an intensifier. Even the Oxford English Dictionary includes this now (see here). I suppose I can't really get annoyed with them as they are only documenting how things *are* used.

Since there are two contradictory meanings for "literally", it is now literally useless. :-)

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Re^6: poll ideas quest 2015 by jdporter (Paladin) on May 22, 2015 at 13:11 UTC
...an intensifier. So it's an expletive. :-)	[reply]
Re^7: poll ideas quest 2015 by thargas (Deacon) on Jun 22, 2015 at 14:11 UTC
:-) Especially when used in comments about its use.	[reply]

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