jamie redknapp's best misuse's of the word "literally"

[turienzo's lovechild]

-“The crowd behind the goal are literally going insane.”

-“He had to cut back inside onto his left, because he literally hasn’t got a right foot”

-‘He’s literally turned him inside out.’

-“This new ball is going quicker than ever - it literally explodes off the player’s foot.”

-“That cross to Rooney was literally on a plate”

 

[Kazenga <3]

I would literally smash it.

 

[Acker79]

Do you perchance listen to the guardian football weekly podcast?

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Do you perchance listen to the guardian football weekly podcast?

rumbled

yes- i'm LITERALLY listening to it now

 

[Blackadder]

metaphorically speaking that could be bollocks!

 

[Gblocksouthstand]

It might be litorally a load of cockles

 

[Brightonfan1983]

How about the op's best misuses of the apostrophe in thread titles?

 

[Davemania]

-“The crowd behind the goal are literally going insane.”

-“He had to cut back inside onto his left, because he literally hasn’t got a right foot”

-‘He’s literally turned him inside out.’

-“This new ball is going quicker than ever - it literally explodes off the player’s foot.”

-“That cross to Rooney was literally on a plate”

lol theyre great, i literally wet myself whilst reading them

I also like when commentators say things like....and the referees blown up!

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Is he definitely misusing the word?

 

[guster]

Im literally laughing my arse off.

 

[cloud]

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[Lady Whistledown]

The other day he described a player- possibly Aguero- as "literally floating above the pitch".

He and his old man are a disgrace to the English language.

 

[Giraffe]

He and his old man are a disgrace to the English language.

Not sure why but that's the funniest sentence I've seen on NSC for a long time!

 

[Gus is god]

My fav was pardew and he got in trouble about rape.

seagulls

 

[Betfair Bozo]

Last week he referred to a team being "passed to death, literally."

 

[Blackadder]

He and his old man are literally a disgrace to the English language.

That's better.

 

[sten_super]

A few years ago he said "Paul Scholes can literally stop time" which is my favourite.

Is he definitely misusing the word?

That's debatable. It's an accepted 'informal' use of the word literally, to mean 'in effect; in substance; very nearly; virtually' (taken from dictionary.com but repeated elsewhere). Most of the examples in this thread are probably covered by this. However it certainly runs against the original use of the word, and doesn't stop Redknapp from being a knobjockey.

 

[DTES]

-“The crowd behind the goal are literally going insane.”

-“He had to cut back inside onto his left, because he literally hasn’t got a right foot”

-‘He’s literally turned him inside out.’

-“This new ball is going quicker than ever - it literally explodes off the player’s foot.”

-“That cross to Rooney was literally on a plate”

We at NSC (in particular you, [MENTION=1349]turienzo's lovechild[/MENTION]), are literally famous as this thread has been mentioned and linked to on the Guardian today. Literally brilliant.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2012/mar/12/reality-check-literally-wrong-use-word

 

[FootballFan7]

literally love this thread! need to listen to Guardian podcasts!

 

[TheJasperCo]

He and Jeremy Clarkson literally use that word a lot.