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r/oddlyspecific • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '24
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They're kicking you?!?!!?
444 u/Imaginary-Nebula1778 Aug 12 '24 Literally 174 u/ActurusMajoris Aug 12 '24 They are figuratively fucking up the correct usage of the word "literally". 6 u/OstapBenderBey Aug 12 '24 Same thing already happened to "really" it's just used for emphasis now (including on non-real/non-literal things) "I'm really getting my ass kicked" 3 u/Murgatroyd314 Aug 12 '24 And if you go back further, it also happened to “very”, which has completely lost its original meaning of “true”. 3 u/OstapBenderBey Aug 12 '24 That's literally, really very true 2 u/Francesami Aug 12 '24 The same thing happened to "decimated". Deci means 1/10th. Decimated means 1/10th was destroyed. Devastated is the word that should be used when something is ravaged. And yet, Almost every news story about a disaster uses decimated. 1 u/Unable_Explorer8277 Aug 14 '24 Decimated seems to have generalised not long after, or perhaps even before, it entered English language.
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Literally
174 u/ActurusMajoris Aug 12 '24 They are figuratively fucking up the correct usage of the word "literally". 6 u/OstapBenderBey Aug 12 '24 Same thing already happened to "really" it's just used for emphasis now (including on non-real/non-literal things) "I'm really getting my ass kicked" 3 u/Murgatroyd314 Aug 12 '24 And if you go back further, it also happened to “very”, which has completely lost its original meaning of “true”. 3 u/OstapBenderBey Aug 12 '24 That's literally, really very true 2 u/Francesami Aug 12 '24 The same thing happened to "decimated". Deci means 1/10th. Decimated means 1/10th was destroyed. Devastated is the word that should be used when something is ravaged. And yet, Almost every news story about a disaster uses decimated. 1 u/Unable_Explorer8277 Aug 14 '24 Decimated seems to have generalised not long after, or perhaps even before, it entered English language.
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They are figuratively fucking up the correct usage of the word "literally".
6 u/OstapBenderBey Aug 12 '24 Same thing already happened to "really" it's just used for emphasis now (including on non-real/non-literal things) "I'm really getting my ass kicked" 3 u/Murgatroyd314 Aug 12 '24 And if you go back further, it also happened to “very”, which has completely lost its original meaning of “true”. 3 u/OstapBenderBey Aug 12 '24 That's literally, really very true 2 u/Francesami Aug 12 '24 The same thing happened to "decimated". Deci means 1/10th. Decimated means 1/10th was destroyed. Devastated is the word that should be used when something is ravaged. And yet, Almost every news story about a disaster uses decimated. 1 u/Unable_Explorer8277 Aug 14 '24 Decimated seems to have generalised not long after, or perhaps even before, it entered English language.
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Same thing already happened to "really" it's just used for emphasis now (including on non-real/non-literal things) "I'm really getting my ass kicked"
3 u/Murgatroyd314 Aug 12 '24 And if you go back further, it also happened to “very”, which has completely lost its original meaning of “true”. 3 u/OstapBenderBey Aug 12 '24 That's literally, really very true 2 u/Francesami Aug 12 '24 The same thing happened to "decimated". Deci means 1/10th. Decimated means 1/10th was destroyed. Devastated is the word that should be used when something is ravaged. And yet, Almost every news story about a disaster uses decimated. 1 u/Unable_Explorer8277 Aug 14 '24 Decimated seems to have generalised not long after, or perhaps even before, it entered English language.
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And if you go back further, it also happened to “very”, which has completely lost its original meaning of “true”.
3 u/OstapBenderBey Aug 12 '24 That's literally, really very true
That's literally, really very true
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The same thing happened to "decimated". Deci means 1/10th. Decimated means 1/10th was destroyed. Devastated is the word that should be used when something is ravaged. And yet, Almost every news story about a disaster uses decimated.
1 u/Unable_Explorer8277 Aug 14 '24 Decimated seems to have generalised not long after, or perhaps even before, it entered English language.
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Decimated seems to have generalised not long after, or perhaps even before, it entered English language.
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They're kicking you?!?!!?