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You’re right; any word can be used figuratively, but I can’t see any reason why switching the two would help with trying to be poetic or emphatic or whatever. One main purpose of language is to convey information, and to use “literally” when it’s clear the speaker means “figuratively” lends unnecessary confusion.

The trouble is, now what do we say when we really mean literally? “Literally literally?” Why can’t people say “almost literally?” Or maybe just “figuratively?”

Language changes. I don’t think this is a good change. /rant

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Sure, but if you want to effect change about someone’s affect, you’re gonna need a bigger stein.

I mean, if you want to positively affect the effect, that is.

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P-O-S-E-S-S-I-O-N…

P-O-S-S-E-S-S-I-O-N.

Yep. Math checks out.

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It litera… it figuratively is, though. Language isn’t 'Nam, Smokey. There are rules.

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Mark it zero, dude.

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And “could of” is incorrect. It should be “could have”.

Edit: I didn’t read the description after “could of”. I will leave this here as evidence of my own fallibility. Plus I need to finish this beer, Dooley’s Belated Porter, yum.

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shouldn’t that be
literally: fucking actually fucking

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I thought the contrast would be more amusing.

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Cease to fucking keep … split inifinitive?

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I think it’s unavoidable. Moving the expletive either one word earlier or later would give the phrase a much different meaning.

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It did take alot of effort to see.

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Beat me fucking to it.

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Lead: Present fucking tense of an action
Led: Past fucking tense of an action
Lead: A fucking metal
Read: Present fucking tense of an action
Red: Past fucking tense of A fucking colour.
Read: Past fucking tense of an action

DAMN this language!

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Yeah, I think it’s time it went home.

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I’m more annoyed by the lack of capitalization after the = each time.

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And now it makes sense.

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But “there = specifies a fucking location” makes conversations very efficient.

SHE: Where do you want to go tonight?
ME: There.
SHE: I have a headache.

Yup. Very efficient.

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Why; because most people will misread the name as Murphy’s Law upon first glance?

Being intentionally confusing; what could possibly go wrong?

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One of the best things I ever learned in the two linguistics classes I took in college:

When you insert “fucking” in a word or phrase, it always is followed immediately by an accented syllable. So you’d never say, “it fucking is boring.”

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“This is boring.”

“I don’t think it’s boring.”

“It fucking is boring.”

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