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To: metmom
"literally" for "figuratively":

"I literally died laughing".

28 posted on 01/19/2018 8:09:13 AM PST by glennaro
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To: glennaro

I once saw “literally” misused in a different way: there was nothing figurative about it.

It was something like “She literally washed those clothes until they were clean.”


169 posted on 01/19/2018 5:35:54 PM PST by firebrand
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