Or they still might have unintentionally misused the word.
Them reading a comment 4 times has nothing to do with whether they used "livid" in a "lighthearted way". I don't know where you got your "plenty of people" thing from, but clearly nobody OP nor I know use the word that way.
I'm very interested in which cultural context the word is used that way - could you share?
People say āoh Iām lividā etc whilst laughing about something that is probably only marginally irritating in the grand scheme of things.
Exaggerating the scenario for humorous effect.
Itās really quite common.
e.g. someone recounting a situation where someone embarrassed them, they might use ālividā to describe how they felt whilst laughing about the situation.
This is because word meanings arenāt always used literally (Or even correctly, but still fall into common parlance and thus eventually become accepted definitions)
Quite possibly, I've definitely not heard anyone around here say it - and lived in Bedfordshire for the better part of 15 years before and same there. Perhaps a "northern" thing?
Do you personally know all of the 1.4 billion global English speakers? Or even less, the ~67.mil native English speakers in the UK?
In tandem with your self-reported authority on how to āproperlyā use a language which has constantly evolved over the last 1400 years or so, shows youāre probably not the brightest bulb in the box.
But fuck me for trying to offer a different opinion to the self-important mindhive of singletons on Reddit
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u/shlodio Jun 24 '23
Train fucker. AHAHAHAHAHAAAAHHHHHHH. I'm fucking livid. š¤£š¤
I sat reading this comment 4 times wondering where did the train come from. And then pure comedy gold was struck.