I'm quite literally..

[raf_gti]

..sat here typing on a keyboard that I really can't stand people who have to say 'literally' all the time.

[speed_monkey]

raf_gti said:

..sat here typing on a keyboard that I really can't stand people who have to say 'literally' all the time.

I love you............ literally

[illmonkey]

Its not like I say it literally all the time. Literally i reckon its once a week, literally no more than that.

At the end of the day...

[Ahhh Moneypenny]

Literally the word thread ever

[Slagathore]

Ahhh Moneypenny said:

Literally the word thread ever

Word!

[tonyvid]

It's much better with some punctuation...

illmonkey said:

Its not like I say it "literally" all the time. Literally, i reckon its once a week. Literally, no more than that.

At the end of the day...

[captainzep]

Fearne Cotton is quite literally the worst offender in the world of broadcasting.

Every other feckin' sentence.

[illmonkey]

tonyvid said:

It's much better with some punctuation...

illmonkey said:

Its not like I say it "literally" all the time. Literally, i reckon its once a week. Literally, no more than that.

At the end of the day...

It's actually much better without some arse correcting others all the time, literally.

[Pferdestarke]

What about 'absolutely'? Does that count?

[tonyvid]

dibbers006 said:

tonyvid said:

It's much better with some punctuation...

illmonkey said:

Its not like I say it "literally" all the time. Literally, i reckon its once a week. Literally, no more than that.

At the end of the day...

That must have taken literally weeks to do all that with the [b] thingemys

There are some things I wish I never started!

[Geronimo]

Yeh it's so random...

[o.versteer]

captainzep said:

Fearne Cotton is quite literally the worst offender in the world of broadcasting.

Every other feckin' sentence.

Gary Rhodes, although mercifully largely absent from the box these days, is another offender.

[dxb335d]

literally, this is the worst thread ive ever seen. Quite literally.

[Ahhh Moneypenny]

Pferdestarke said:

What about 'absolutely'? Does that count?

absolutely literally it does

[SpydieNut]

raf_gti said:

..sat here typing on a keyboard that I really can't stand people who have to say 'literally' all the time.

so you literally hate the word literally.

that is, literally, the most absurd thing i've heard today. and i have literally heard thousands of things today.

you could literally say i'm at a loss for words.

[Steamer]

At least nobody has told you to 'Chill-ax!' yet

[Sciroccology]

The misuse of "literally" along with the over-use of "basically" is one of my all-time bugbears.

As I see it, you can legitimately use "literally" when you are referring to a situation/event/state of mind that is usually alluded to in a metaphorical manner.

For example, Neil Armstrong can, legitimately, say he was "literally over the moon". Edmund Hillary could say he was "literally on top of the world".

If anyone other than Apollo astronauts say "I was literally over the moon", you have my permission to stab them. Through the heart. Literally.

[Ahhh Moneypenny]

Steamer said:

At least nobody has told you to 'Chill-ax!' yet

Or touch base!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh twuntish phrase

[paulmurr]

That spikey haired tt chef uses it all the time... for example 'literally, put the potatoes onto the plate'.

Which is only useful to anyone who was going to metaphorically put the potatoes onto the plate?!?

[Bushmaster]

Sciroccology said:

The misuse of "literally" along with the over-use of "basically" is one of my all-time bugbears.

As I see it, you can legitimately use "literally" when you are referring to a situation/event/state of mind that is usually alluded to in a metaphorical manner.

For example, Neil Armstrong can, legitimately, say he was "literally over the moon". Edmund Hillary could say he was "literally on top of the world".

If anyone other than Apollo astronauts say "I was literally over the moon", you have my permission to stab them. Through the heart. Literally.

Depends where your frame of reference is, to an alien looking from a distant planet behind the moon towards a person on earth, that person would also be over the moon. You had literally not turned around and thought about that had you. Just goes to show, literally.