• abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      literally what it means

      Literally not

      People treat words like divine tangible streams of meaning when they’re just sounds we make

      Completely unrelated, seems like you have a bug up your butt about something else. Also I’m pretty sure nobody thinks that either, sorry a prescriptivist upset you but that has no relation to what I said.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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      21 hours ago

      Either you’re using “literally” in a non-literal fashion, or you’re using it to make your statement even more incorrect.

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          11 hours ago

          My tip: don’t argue with people who know not even the terms they are attempting to criticize the use of. +also they seem to be using a sockpuppet account to upvote themselves and write comments

      • lad@programming.dev
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        13 hours ago

        Maybe, making it as incorrect as possible serves to prove a point which makes statement phrased correctly for the goal in mind?