I interpreted it literally, even though I knew it probably wasn’t literal. The literal implication forced all the figurative ones out of my head 
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Tommyrot. People may like to hold that it is unclear, but in fact we successfully interpret it with a high degree of accuracy all the time (mainly because it is used in the aforementioned ‘joking-not-joking’ way).
The first time I’ve heard any kind of sense associated with Chesterfield…
Next:
Y U shdnt bee a speling snobb
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Arguably, you could put China’s development from the 19th century through to the present day to the Opium Wars. Which is down to us Brits, mainly.
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Hey hey!
Hope you are well 
I’ve come around to not caring about grammar and caring more and more about the content. I couldn’t care less even about people who could care less.
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…And they’ll know we are Christians Grammarians by our love proper usage, by our love proper usage…
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nah, this reasoning does not hold. German was an important language for scientists* and was never regulated, currently English is THE common denominator and no central instance exists (or is needed, for that matter).
* until the NSDAP came along. suckers.
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Word. Adverbs are often a cheap and easy way to add emphasis (guilty here as well) but the emphasis is superficial and fleeting because it’s a stock word that everybody uses. Composing one’s sentences to directly convey the experience or thing that was worth emphasizing takes longer but worth taking a conversational pause to do so. But sometimes those words feel out of reach, which is why the occasional use of emphasizing adverbs is forgivable.
Why everyone seems to lunge for ‘literally’ these days, I have no idea, but I take consolation in the fact that this trend will someday die. Literally.
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Mona Chalabi is obviously not an American, and therefore was lucky enough not to have been forced to live through the Tea Party Years – a time when mostly lower middle class white people having spent the past 20 years glued to Fox News suddenly realized they had an Original Idea™ (manufactured in a think tank by intelligent, snarky whiz-kids / presidential lackeys who are probably also grammar snobs) and they took to the internet to proclaim their Original Idea™ boldly and brightly, and in-your-face!
Take that, libtards, with your fancy college diplomas! No longer will you n***er-loving, bleeding hearts keep the poor, long suffering white man down!
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Yeah, it should be “Get brains, morans!” Common mistake.
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Chesterfield
Looks alright, doesn’t it? It’s shite.
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Yeah, but the spire!
Up until I finally figured it out, Atom liked replacing my tabs with spaces. Or vice versa.
“IndentationError: unexpected indent”.
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Now, now. No need to quarrel. Everyone will get a nice Participant Ribbon, so it’s all okay, and everyone’s right.
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Being terrified is the point of a Haunted House. The question is not whether the house is appropriate for young kids, but whether specific children are ready for the house.
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Here’s a thing: are you likely to mean “figuratively literally” when using that phrase? Does “figuratively means” mean anything?
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Good for you.
##Damn, this thread can not close soon enough.
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