Thursday, April 16, 2009

A Literal Apology

For literally years I have been internally mocking people who use "literally" with sayings that aren't literally true, eg, "my heart literally broke". Well now I am offering an external apology as apparently it's ok to use "literally" as an idiom intensifier, as long as you are careful of "unintentionally bizarre or humorous effects." According to Chambers.

2 comments:

Yvonne said...

oh god no.

Adamski said...

I figuratively cannot believe it.