Comments on: literally couldn’t be worse taste

By: elisa

elisa — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:28:08 +0000

“like”- i can’t stop saying the word “like”. it started as a joke, LIKE, valley girl

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:32:08 +0000

What is even better is they use the phrase “tied to a girl’s bed”.

HA HA.
Pun intended?

By: Susanne Dunn

Susanne Dunn — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:50:39 +0000

The only thing more overused and misued than ‘literally’ is:

There’s (followed by a plural), as in ‘There’s three reasons why this is wrong…’

Start listening for it and it will drive you crazy.
Everyone LITERALLY says this one.

I would start a blog, but the amount of examples found would crash the system.

By: dan

dan — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:31:54 +0000

Thanks for the blog. I’ll check it from now on. I find this trend of using “literally” to mean something like “really” or “seriously” to be very annoying.
Is there an entry where you trace when this trend started? It seems to me that it really mushroomed (…not literally, although mushrooms might be a good simile or metaphor for what’s going on here) just a couple years ago. From my memory, I saw it first mostly on late night talk shows, where some airheaded celebrity would misuse it.
Anyway, thanks again.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:47:24 +0000

This is one of the best blogs ever.

I make fun of one of my friends for using literally all the time, but I think I have a worse problem.
I use the word “however” in between sentences even when the second sentence doesn’t contradict the sentiment of the first sentence.
Something like:
“Bob woke up one morning to find himself on the floor. However, he was wearing a shirt.”

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:01:01 +0000

I guess one would have to taste the beds to be sure…

By: esseffen

esseffen — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:36:25 +0000

In fact, the book isn’t so much synonymous with “sexual precocity” as it is with pedophilia and rape, as told through the voice of a compulsive liar.

But I agree literally is wrong here - as there are many things worse to taste than books, or beds.

By: mimi

mimi — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:50:34 +0000

In which case, that would be an opinion, not a literal fact, yes? That is, it is certainly in poor taste, and certainly many would consider it morally wrong, but surely there are several things worse than sexualizing young girls.

(funny, my Firefox spell check says that ’sexualizing’ isn’t a word… weird.) =/

By: Bran

Bran — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:39:01 +0000

This is a correct usage, or at least has the potential to be. They very well may be of the opinion that there is not a single thing on earth in worse taste than sexualizing young girls.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:41:24 +0000

Perhaps they meant to say “literarily”.