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New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

“I have seen these addictive algorithms pull in young people, literally capture them and make them prisoners in a space where they are cut off from human connection, social interaction and normal classroom activity,” she said.

literally capture them? you should be literally ejected from office.

[–] mean_bean279 11 points 6 months ago

Spend 5 minutes on any HS campus during passing period and you’ll see that it’s correct to say capture.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/literally

literally

(degree, figuratively, proscribed, contranym) Used non-literally as an intensifier for figurative statements: virtually, so to speak (often considered incorrect; see usage notes)

Synonym: virtually

He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air.

I agree that it's a goddamn obnoxious use of the word that is a recipe for ambiguity, but I think that the battle over this has been lost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I blame Paris Hilton.