• kase
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    1011 months ago

    literally worse than Hitler.

    Any minute now, somebody’s gonna argue that it’s incorrect to use literally this way. Happens every time I see the word used here on Lemmy lol

    • 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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      511 months ago

      There’s a name for that - it’s called Cunningham’s Law.

      • kase
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        211 months ago

        True, but only given that the first comment was wrong, which I wouldn’t say so. But I’ve seen people who would, so it works lol

    • Ann Archy
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      And they’re wrong every time. You can use “literally” as a rhetorical exaggeration, bam, debate over. They’re the same as the “could care less” crowd. “I already care very little, but I could care even less”, solves it.

    • GladiusB
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      311 months ago

      Well. You kind of did. Are you like Switzerland here?

      • kase
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        411 months ago

        Oh no haha, I don’t agree that it’s incorrect. I’m firmly on the pro-literally-as-a-hyperbole side lol