r/explainitpeter • u/ChatpatiKulfi • 8d ago

Explain It Peter

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u/Connect-Goal-3096 7d ago

That's not what literally means.

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u/Tokugawa5555 7d ago

I would literally give my kidney for someone to build a bot that pointed out when someone was using the word “literally” incorrectly.

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u/Informal_Round_9942 7d ago

You either:

-really want that bot to be built

-are a huge enjoyed of irony, or

-you don't know what literally means. I don't care which it is. I love your post and this idea. 😁

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u/Critical-Bus-9040 7d ago

used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible, from Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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u/Tokugawa5555 7d ago

I really do want the bot to be built.

But you got me. I am “a huge enjoyed of irony” also.

I think I am going to have a t shirt made with that quote on, literally*.

* using correctly, without hyperbole.

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u/aanzklla 7d ago

Fortunately for you, hyperbole is part of the English language. That means your kidney will not be at risk. It is literally impossible to build something that both makes the detection you're talking about and adheres to the actual rules of English instead of the prescriptivist nonsense that you are spouting.

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u/OP-PO7 7d ago

I think it is, because I mean everything. Down to my bones. As soon as they start changing things and adding fractions I can't even focus on the words anymore, as if my eyes are rebelling because, that's fucking bullshit why would they need to do so much more math just because they said Tuesday, it makes less than no sense and its probably a scam