I literally shat in my pants

Are you annoyed when the word literally is used to mean figuratively? Austen, Joyce, and Twain have done it -- maybe it's not so bad, you damn prescriptivists.


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Submitted by crazymonk on Tue, 11/01/2005 - 10:55am.

I know Nacho is annoyed.

DoorFrame | Tue, 11/01/2005 - 11:53am

And to make matters worse, this freaking EDITOR of the OED includes the sentence "Don't write silly-soundingly." I hope he was being ironic (here we go again).

jon may | Tue, 11/01/2005 - 12:27pm

i was going to make a comment, but doorframe made it for me. thank you doorframe!

nach | Tue, 11/01/2005 - 12:45pm
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