People using the word, issue, when they really mean problems. It really gets my goat.
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[Misc] Use of LITERALLY
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Nathan
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- Jan 8, 2010
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So that's literally a different issue, right.
Managers who refer to 'challenges' when they really mean problems (dumped on their staff)!
Oh, and the way that companies now use the word 'solutions' for their services: 'Plumbing solutions', 'Gardening solutions', 'office supply solutions', 'catering solutions', etc. WTF - It's endemic!
Normal Rob
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Agreed. The issue being that it does not sound right.
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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i think this reminds us that dictionaries are records of the words used in a language, not specifications to define that language. though i think your right about allowing "literally" to slip like this, when the meanings contradict each other, they should bring some sanity to bear. or bare. (which is it?)
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
"Hard working families' 
, because single people are shirkers 
, because single people are shirkers Tubby Mondays
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As annoying as the phrase 'to be honest', to be honest.
Tubby Mondays
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"Hard working families'
Hard working tax payers. Because all tax payers are hard workers.
bear
To continue the natural creep of meanings over time adds to the variety and nuance of our language, completely wrong headed use by numpties with a media presence is a different matter
- Jul 10, 2003
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Prince Monolulu
Everything in Moderation
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So that's like literally a different issue, right.
Is that a question?
- Jul 10, 2003
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What, like literally a question ?
Mattywerewolf
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even those that spend all day on NSC at work?
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Why is it whenever people are relaying the tale of a conversation with someone else, they're always "turning round" and saying something ?
"So I said to her, I said 'it'll be swimming in custard by now, and SHE turned round and said well I'm not pulling it out then. So I turned round and said well its not my problem, I'm not here on Thursdays am I. So she turn'..."ETC
It conjures an image of two people constantly spinning on the spot before giving their reply. Odd.
"So I said to her, I said 'it'll be swimming in custard by now, and SHE turned round and said well I'm not pulling it out then. So I turned round and said well its not my problem, I'm not here on Thursdays am I. So she turn'..."ETC
It conjures an image of two people constantly spinning on the spot before giving their reply. Odd.
father_and_son
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Jeez, that joke is as old as the dinosaurs!
I think the use (or rather, misuse) of 'literally' has been around so long and is so commonplace that I think it's now in the first category you mention, adding to the variety and nuance of our language. Nothing anybody can do can make this particular usage of the word go away - it's made it into the mainstream now.
I bet, like, you literally haven't even got a goat
Leave me out of it!