Wednesday 4 August 2010

The English Language

You know what annoys me? People abusing the the english language. Lolwut, I hear you say? Why Thomas, you are a frequent rapist of the language yourself, you old lolcat you.

Okay, yes, you are allowed to take certain liberties in the use of teh inglish langZ0RZZ but all in all, there are certain things you don't do. Let me focus on one of these things that make me figuratively homicidal. The misuse of the word "Literally". Apparently, "literally" has two uses, and neither are: "literally".
1. As a substitute for "really", "much", and the like.
Example: "That was literally amazing, dudeguy."
As opposed to what? Figuratively Amazing?
"I say, old bean, that was figuratively amazing."

2. As a replacement for "figuratively".
Okay, this one baffles me.
"You are literally retarded!"
No, -subject name here- is probably figuratively retarded.
I get how you want to add force to what you're saying, but it REALLY (read, literally) makes you sound like douchebag.
THAT IS LITERALLY HOW YOU SOUND! FPGHPLFHGPFLFPHGLFP!

I'm pretty much done with this piece now. Have at it.

5 comments:

  1. I'm so proud that I didn't use the word when I mailed you yesterday. It was figuratively on the tip of my fingers, though.

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  2. UR A LOLKÄT!!1elevenshiftplusone00100001

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  3. This has literally got to be... er... a blog post.

    Yeah, I was going to say something witty here, but then I literally couldn't think of anything.

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