8.16.2013

For a moment there, we were literally worried

Have we literally broken the English language? | Martha Gill | Comment is free | theguardian.com

"Literally", you see, in its development from knock-kneed, single-purpose utterance, to swan-like dual-purpose term, has reached that awkward stage. It is neither one nor the other, and it can't do anything right.

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