It's your language. You use it every day. You should strive to master it. My late mother, a 27-year, graduate-level professor of English, embedded that in my brain once upon a time. I’m not nearly as smart as she was, but I’m sharp enough to recognize that the vast majority of native-born Americans can’t speak or write English worth a lick.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
I'm gonna LITERALLY kill someone
If I hear one more idiot misuse literally, all hell is going to break loose. On the news an elected public official said; not once, not twice, but THREE times..."I literally died." Well hell, doesn't that make you a freaking ghost???? Idiots.
2 comments:
I literally laughed literally out literally loud.
There was this woman on TV who said "I literaly had butterflies in my stomach...". Huh?
Ahhh...dontcha love it? That's one of my peeves too.
Why doens't anyone abuse figuratively? You could be a lot more creative that way ;-)
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