Lemmywinks

How do you pronounce ‘received’? (Or foreign, for that matter…)

My mum once said she knew she’d been gaining weight because her children had all stopped (affectionately) referring to her as ‘fatty’.

It’s because there are no windows

They definitely aren’t the same thing. People can be ashamed of things they did years ago and/or have no possibility of being judged for.

What’s it supposed to mean?

2008 too

The then/than problem is also getting out of hand these days. Again, not sure if it’s an auto-correct thing or not, but either way it pisses me off much more than it probably should.

According to Merriam-Webster they included its non-literal use in their dictionary since at least 1909.

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Fair enough. My comment wasn’t aimed so much at you, I just like pointing out that the use of literally as an intensifier has a long and prestigious history.

Also, really sorry to do this to you, but it’s “all intents and purposes”, not “intensive purposes”.

Its use as an intensifier dates back to the 1700s, and only since the early 20th century has its use as an intensifier been controversial

You are wrong.

Getting upset at people using literally in a figurative manner is popular these days, but it isn’t based on an actual change in usage. There are actually dozens of other words used euphemistically as intensifiers in the same way (‘totally’, ‘absolutely’, ‘fantastic’, ‘amazing’), but no one seems to mind for some reason.

Nothing has recently changed about the way people use the word literally. The figurative use of literally has been used in famous works by the likes of Dickins, Twain and at least one of the Bronte sisters, and was first noted in an English dictionary in 1769 - people have literally been using it that way for at least 250 years.

Someone’s got to put a break to this joke before it gets violent goes too far

This one’s easily solved by removing restrictions on immigration