candybrie

My husband's boss has an alpaca farm. They always have 1 llama whose job is to watch over the alpacas. So this tracks to me haha

How was placement and removal?

Maybe. Sometimes, birth control side effects are also miserable. It's a fun game of pick your poison.

With reasonable, actionable steps. If you don't have those, then they kind of have a point, don't they? It's like the Newton's flaming laser sword of politics.

He didn't even make it through the acceptance speech 🤦‍♀️

That's a valid opinion. That they're using it to mean "figuratively" is not.

I didn't say your statement was pedantic. Just that you specifically called out your use of literally as not used in a figurative sense and that this thread in general is about pedantry. Those two things together made it seem not totally insufferable to point out that literal was actually being applied to figurative language.

Just because you called it out and this is a thread about pedantry: road rage is an idiomatic phrase, which is a type of figurative language. So, you were using literally to emphasize figurative language rather than try to clarify you weren't using the idiomatic meaning of the phrase but rather a literal.

Yeah. Dictionaries reflect popular usage. And I think literally has probably been in use in that sense nearly as long as it's been used to mean something really did happen that way.

They covered him not expecting 15 years.

He was likely looking for a few days to a few weeks of three squares and a cot.

I don't think anyone expects 15 years over an unarmed robbery of $100 because it's completely disproportionate.

The guy turned himself in he felt so bad for stealing $100 from a bank. I don't think that's a sign of a bad dude raised poorly.

People who think anyone uses literally to mean figuratively are annoying and too caught up in their crusade to realize their take is idiotic. No one uses it to mean figuratively. People use it to emphasize regardless of the figurative nature of language. It's semantic drift that happens to most words that mean something similar to "in actuality" (e.g. really, actually). Even in other languages.