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I've never understood how it's an 'error' at all. Legolas Send a noteboard - 09/04/2017 07:10:14 PM

View original postThose can be irritating as well, like when people mix up the words "torturous" and "tortuous".

Seems to me it's merely a part of a wider tendency of employing more, and more extreme, hyperboles for comic effect and for emphasis - the same way that where in the past someone might've said 'I've told you a dozen times already', they're now tempted to go for 'I've told you a million times already'.

I don't think, though I could be wrong, that anyone is actually confused about the meaning of the word 'literally'. They just like to exaggerate.

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Please share the grammatical and/or orthographic errors that most irritate you. Tom - 06/04/2017 12:20:27 AM 1034 Views
Come on, man. Verbing weirds language. Ghavrel - 06/04/2017 01:21:17 AM 741 Views
The Oxford comma is an abomination. The other is called a greengrocer's apostrophe. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:00:57 PM 748 Views
Tell that to the First Circuit. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/04/2017 05:42:01 AM 424 Views
No, I'll let the Supreme Court smack their asses for it. Tom - 08/04/2017 01:28:11 AM 633 Views
I'm pretty carefree about language unless it becomes difficult to understand aerocontrols - 06/04/2017 01:42:29 AM 764 Views
Creative vocabulary can be funderfully great Tom - 06/04/2017 08:14:23 PM 678 Views
Bruh Larry - 06/04/2017 01:46:45 AM 742 Views
Does anyone really address cousins or siblings by the relationship term? I hate that on TV & films Cannoli - 06/04/2017 05:21:25 PM 788 Views
Not really Larry - 09/04/2017 07:28:27 PM 1208 Views
Then you have throw in be like *NM* random thoughts - 06/04/2017 06:29:25 PM 397 Views
I don't believe I've ever heard either. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:14:49 PM 711 Views
You're lucky Larry - 09/04/2017 07:26:39 PM 1235 Views
Let's party damookster - 06/04/2017 02:02:19 AM 745 Views
That last one is a stylistic/usage error. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:03:26 PM 699 Views
I've never understood how it's an 'error' at all. Legolas - 09/04/2017 07:10:14 PM 779 Views
Sports commentators here do it all the time damookster - 09/04/2017 08:03:05 PM 684 Views
I can see how that would be annoying - just not how it's a grammar/vocabulary error... *NM* Legolas - 09/04/2017 08:11:18 PM 398 Views
which is why I preceded my original comment by stating it was not part of Tom's question *NM* damookster - 09/04/2017 08:14:25 PM 459 Views
Fair enough. Legolas - 09/04/2017 08:21:50 PM 724 Views
There, their, they're. *NM* TyrReborn - 06/04/2017 03:28:16 AM 417 Views
Ugh *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:16:48 PM 437 Views
I Tom all over the place when I see fewer/less botched. nossy - 06/04/2017 08:51:13 AM 695 Views
And further/farther Cannoli - 06/04/2017 03:03:49 PM 769 Views
I only mastered that recently. nossy - 06/04/2017 04:44:35 PM 752 Views
My husband too. Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:10:46 PM 746 Views
You know, I take that violation of my third example as a compliment. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:16:33 PM 656 Views
Saying "borrowed" instead of "lent" Belals Girl - 06/04/2017 04:13:21 PM 758 Views
Yikes, who says that?! nossy - 06/04/2017 04:47:31 PM 664 Views
Kill it with Fire. Cannoli - 06/04/2017 05:19:08 PM 731 Views
who the hell says that? random thoughts - 06/04/2017 06:31:17 PM 692 Views
Never heard that. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:17:40 PM 693 Views
I think it might be a Midwestern thing ßelals Girl - 06/04/2017 11:53:27 PM 690 Views
I lived for most of my early years in the Midwest and never heard that Tom - 08/04/2017 01:25:25 AM 690 Views
In the crick. *NM* nossy - 08/04/2017 03:48:09 PM 434 Views
Oh I've heard that Tom - 08/04/2017 11:09:16 PM 696 Views
Interesting. I always thought only non-native speakers made that mistake. *NM* Legolas - 09/04/2017 07:03:19 PM 433 Views
I am annoyed by people who get upset with outdated rules and expect the rest of us to care random thoughts - 06/04/2017 06:28:33 PM 758 Views
You keep doing that, sparky *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:18:23 PM 400 Views
No worries Tommy *NM* random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:29:53 PM 421 Views
Many rules are there for the sake of clarity. The Shrike - 06/04/2017 08:28:16 PM 735 Views
between you and me there is no lack of clarity random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:35:09 PM 684 Views
I'm literally gobsmacked aerocontrols - 06/04/2017 06:31:10 PM 692 Views
It did. I mentioned it. *NM* damookster - 06/04/2017 07:02:33 PM 411 Views
shame on me! aerocontrols - 06/04/2017 07:03:55 PM 669 Views
I've never liked that word. It sounds like someone savoring come from a blowjob. *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:19:14 PM 395 Views
Re: I'm literally gobsmacked ßelals Girl - 06/04/2017 11:58:08 PM 721 Views
Your first one is my top pick also. Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:01:00 PM 690 Views
The subjunctive is tricky at times. *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:36:33 PM 424 Views
Using the word 'of' instead of 'have' is my biggest one these days. The Shrike - 06/04/2017 08:22:44 PM 876 Views
Yeah. Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:27:47 PM 691 Views
Now my non-edited post lives again. The Shrike - 06/04/2017 08:31:26 PM 637 Views
Well Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:39:57 PM 693 Views
That's an awesome movie. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:49:11 PM 706 Views
I do like it a lot. The Shrike - 07/04/2017 07:06:49 PM 715 Views
One of my faves. nossy - 07/04/2017 10:57:53 PM 669 Views
Irregardless *NM* Jeordam - 06/04/2017 09:18:32 PM 474 Views
A few Aviendha - 07/04/2017 01:26:38 AM 718 Views
funny thing about being a noob *NM* random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:27:26 PM 389 Views
Is that you keep making the same stupid mistakes years later *NM* random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:28:01 PM 396 Views
In the latin alphabet jehovah begins with an i Roland00 - 09/04/2017 06:42:02 AM 702 Views
Your number one is my number one. Rebekah - 09/04/2017 10:52:23 PM 1107 Views
I rarely see sentences with however joined with a semicolon, come to think of it. Larry - 09/04/2017 11:38:10 PM 1269 Views
It is not an error inasmuch as a stylistic choice Stephen - 13/04/2017 05:44:39 PM 753 Views
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