literally watched a million times
Josh Langben writes:
Hey there literal log. I have three pretty funny stories relating to the use of the word literally.
1. I once heard a student who went to my school claim to have “literally watched Ice Age a million times in a week“. I don’t think that’s even possible.
2. Another student at my school told a story about a friend she has. She went on to tell me about how “We became good friends, and now he is like, literally, my other half“. I did not see any scars on her body, or missing parts.
3. The worst of them all…a teacher at my school said this one. An ENGLISH teacher during an ENGLISH class. He said that his wife “literally flipped out”. Now, unless she literally starting to do flips in an attempt to exit a room (which I doubt), I doubt this is accurate. The saddest thing about this is that he got mad at me for correcting him.
According to my calculations, you can watch Ice Age 124 times in a week (maybe 125 if you skip all the credits).
July 19th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Hello! I don’t remember how I found this blog– probably through a Mozilla stumble– but I love it and visit it often. I have been irked by incorrect usage of the word ‘literally’ since elementary school (I’m seventeen years of age now).
Thank you for standing your ground in a world where people chalk up ghastly grammatical errors to a changing English language.
August 13th, 2006 at 1:42 am
This is good to know. Everytime we check out “Ice Age” from the library, it *feels* like my kids watch it like, literally, a million times. Glad to know it is only 125, max.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:34 am
Would watching the same movie on multiple tvs, offset at slightly different time intervals, and all within your field of vision count as watching the same movie multiple times?
August 14th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
It might count to watch it on multiple TVs, but it’s difficult to literally keep 8065 of them in your field of vision for 168 hours (assuming one gets literally no sleep).