I completely agree. There are so many words you can use figuratively like completely, totally, honestly, etc. But there's only one word you can use for literally. And if people just use 'literally' for anything, then it'll lose its meaning and we'll have no word for 'literally'. Everytime you want to say that something happened literally, you'll have to explain that "No, I mean it literally actually happened". That'd suck!
"Trump lied today," rather than, "Trump literally lied today." (I don't know what it was, but the odds make it almost certain that he did.)
Literally, completely, totally, honestly and so on are almost always excessive verbiage. Although "honestly" is useful, since it's very often a flag indicating that the speaker has just lied or is about to.
It annoys me when people use the word literally incorrectly
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I completely agree. There are so many words you can use figuratively like completely, totally, honestly, etc. But there's only one word you can use for literally. And if people just use 'literally' for anything, then it'll lose its meaning and we'll have no word for 'literally'. Everytime you want to say that something happened literally, you'll have to explain that "No, I mean it literally actually happened". That'd suck!
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100% Right!!!! I would super up vote this if I could.
Simple solution:
"Trump lied today," rather than, "Trump literally lied today." (I don't know what it was, but the odds make it almost certain that he did.)
Literally, completely, totally, honestly and so on are almost always excessive verbiage. Although "honestly" is useful, since it's very often a flag indicating that the speaker has just lied or is about to.