"Literally" Watch
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I was reading this article in Wired, and I'm thinking: we need a "literally" watch. Basically a list of articles/stories/etc that don't get the difference between the word literally and figuratively!
Here's the first entry:
@Wired said:
Between the crowds and the noise and the pressure, city life often seems to set one’s brain on edge. Turns out that could literally be true.
Living in the city can twist your brain sideways in your skull! And Wired has a medical study to prove it!
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I literally can't be bothered to care.
Did I get it right? ;)
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inb4 xkcd
To contribute something to this thread: http://newyork.ibtimes.com/articles/167811/20110622/albany-state-senate-andrew-cuomo-dean-skleos-same-sex-marriage.htm
Although if it literally did shake the Senate, they should consider maintaining their building's foundation more.
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@RHuckster said:
To contribute something to this thread: http://newyork.ibtimes.com/articles/167811/20110622/albany-state-senate-andrew-cuomo-dean-skleos-same-sex-marriage.htm
Although if it literally did shake the Senate, they should consider maintaining their building's foundation more.
That's the spirit!
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Take Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Literally Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee...please! I've yet to figure out how she got this job.
@TFA said:In an interview on Sunday, she also said Republicans “are literally just throwing a barrier in the way of someone who is trying to exercise their right to vote.”
She clarified the comment. “Jim Crow was the wrong analogy to use,” Wasserman Schultz told CNN. The problem is that an “analogy” is nearly the opposite of “literally.”
“This plan would literally be a death trap for some seniors,” Wasserman Schultz said.
“Now we have the Republicans who want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws and literally and very transparently block access to the polls to voters who are more likely to vote for Democratic candidates than Republican candidates.”
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Wired had another mis-use of "literally" in their RSS feed, but when I clicked through they'd edited it out of the article. Foo.
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Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz:
If you go back to the year 2000, when we had an obvious disaster and — and saw that our voting process needed refinement, and we did that in the America Votes Act and made sure that we could iron out those kinks, now you have the Republicans, who want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws and literally — and very transparently — block access to the polls to voters who are more likely to vote Democratic candidates than Republican candidates. And it’s nothing short of that blatant.
BTW, she's saying that asking for photo ID at the polls is the same as Jim Crow laws... uh, you have to use photo ID to buy cigarettes and beer, voting seems a tad more important than that.