Literally, A Web Log

Chappelle’s Show writer Chris Brennan talking about the new season’s skits, in Time magazine:

Dave Speaks (TIME.com)
They’re really, really funny. And I’d be confident showing them to anyone on Earth. Literally — Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Chris Tucker, Martin Lawrence, Richard Pryor.
This is a weird one. On the one hand, you could take it to mean […]

Nealz Nuze
Democrats and other big-government lovers know that when you control a person’s access to health care, you control that person absolutely. You literally have him by the short hairs.
I did some research on the literal meaning of the idiom “to have someone by the short hairs”. My first thought came from memories as a […]

Baseball Perspectives (MLB.com)
Division races are literally won in September, at best coming down to the first weekend of October. That’s when the magic number hits zero, and that’s the only time a team can really say it’s in control of its division.
I can’t decide if this is technically incorrect, but it is most definitely unecessary. […]

Have you found Mace Windu’s? (hicksdesign.co.uk)
I have a box full of all my Star Wars toys, and I’m literally bursting to get them out and let [my children] play with them.
I knew I should have had that appendix removed!
In this case “literally” is being used incorrectly to mean “figuratively”.
p.s. While you’re there, check out the […]