Why do people keep adding this to their comments? Are they checking notes? Why do they feel the need to point it out if they are? Why are they saying they are if they aren’t? It’s like me adding “scratching head” to my comment, which I just did, but I have no idea why that adds anything to the conversation.
It’s just a fad. Speech mannerisms also come and go with the times. Right now it’s popular to use it, and people use it.
It do be like that. Many of them get repeated till they reach a critical point and everyone is sick of them. Some of them are harder to tolerate than others though. I can deal with people ‘checking notes’ here and there but those who use “literally” as every second word in their sentences awaken a primal rage inside of me that is yearning for rock to split skull. Luckily that trend isn’t as prevalent as it used to be back in the day.
I hard agree. Misuse of literal is a problem many decades old and it hurts still
OK but the dictionary literally modified the definition to I clude “figuratively” because language is alive and unwell
That “modern” definition of literally is at least 250 years old. It wasn’t created by the internet, or even any living person.
And with all fads, it’s cyclical. But on the internet, things move quicker so instead of 20-30 years, it’s more like 5-10.