A sad day for the Scoop grammar patrol... 'literally' is no longer literal.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/living/literally-definition/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
A sad day indeed.
http://streetcarnage.com/blog/this-just-in-literally-means-not-literally/ (http://streetcarnage.com/blog/this-just-in-literally-means-not-literally/)
Hopefully, we get get them to change their minds.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RSRmsBIGKqc/UM1eKtE1jII/AAAAAAAAO0k/wl2Zad8w8XE/s1600/literally.gif)
Quote from: Benny B on August 15, 2013, 12:35:01 PM
A sad day for the Scoop grammar patrol... 'literally' is no longer literal.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/living/literally-definition/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Next up. "Ironically" will become "coincidentally."
Someone at Google doesn't understand how definitions work. You can't use the word you are defining to explain its own meaning. Undermines the whole purpose of defining something. If a person doesn't know what "literally" means, how can you explain what it means by using the word "literally"?
So not only is this a sad day for grammar, it's an atrocious day for the Google dictionary writers.
Quote from: Sheriff on August 19, 2013, 08:25:14 PM
Next up. "Ironically" will become "coincidentally."
I literally hope you're being ironic.