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Observation of the day - robkelk - 05-04-2025
Usually, something that has an attribute can be described with the adjective form of the name of that attribute.
But it's stories that don't have pathos that are pathetic.
Linguistic drift can do some funny things.
RE: Observation of the day - Labster - 05-11-2025
That's a terrific and awesome point. Or a terrible and awful point. Take your pick.
The worst one for me is "literally". Look at the other intensifiers. "Very" comes from "veritable" meaning "in truth", now just intensifies. "Really" comes from "real", meaning in reality, now just intensifies. Guess what's gonna happen to literally?
RE: Observation of the day - classicdrogn - 05-11-2025
The grammar nerds will rise up and smack people with crowbars until they resign themselves to using literally correctly.
RE: Observation of the day - hazard - 05-11-2025
Going to happen?
Lab, not only has that already happened, it's also become its own antithesis by also coming to mean 'figuratively'.
RE: Observation of the day - robkelk - 05-11-2025
(05-11-2025, 06:03 AM)classicdrogn Wrote: The grammar nerds will rise up and smack people with crowbars until they resign themselves to using literally correctly.
Irregardless of what people who aren't grammar nerds want.