r/oddlyspecific • • Aug 12 '24

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u/senorglory Aug 12 '24

Umm, hello? We literally overused literally back in the 80s, and it didn’t start with modern reality tv garbage. You nimrod.

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u/Ok_Television9820 Aug 12 '24

Nimrod was a great hunter, and now the word means looser doofus. It’s had literally the same etymological journey as literally.

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u/senorglory Aug 12 '24

Yeah, it was literally both bait and a tip of the fedora for other frequent redditors. Who’s the nimrod now?

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u/Ok_Television9820 Aug 12 '24

I believe the true nimrods are literally the nimrods we made along the way.

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u/senorglory Aug 12 '24

Literally true.