Talk about just about anything else that is non-gaming here, but keep it clean
o.pwuaioc
Next-Gen
Posts: 8484 Joined: Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:59 pmLocation: I miss NYC.
Post
by o.pwuaioc Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:43 pm
Luke wrote:
That article is epic.
It literally pales in comparison to an actual article (not some dolt with a keypad):
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_ ... _hate.html
As is often the case, though, such "abuses" have a long and esteemed history in English. Tom Sawyer wasn't turning somersaults on piles of money when Twain described him as "literally rolling in wealth," nor was Jay Gatsby shining when Fitzgerald wrote that "he literally glowed," nor were Bach and Beethoven squeezed into a fedora when Joyce wrote in Ulysses that a Mozart piece was "the acme of first class music as such, literally knocking everything else into a cocked hat." Such examples are easily come by, even in the works of the authors we are often told to emulate.
I know what you're feeling, Luke. I was 15 and ardently anti-"literal-abuse", too. But sooner or later we all have to read a book.
Luke
Next-Gen
Posts: 21076 Joined: Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:39 am
Post
by Luke Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:17 pm
Huh?
MrPopo
Moderator
Posts: 24194 Joined: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:01 pmLocation: Orange County, CA
Post
by MrPopo Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:28 pm
Luke wrote: Huh?
I think what he said was literally doesn't literally mean literally.
Blizzard Entertainment Software Developer - All comments and views are my own and not representative of the company.
Stark
Next-Gen
Posts: 9585 Joined: Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:43 pmLocation: Wylie, TX
Post
by Stark Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:34 pm
MrPopo wrote: Luke wrote: Huh?
I think what he said was literally doesn't literally mean literally.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Let strength be granted, so the world might be mended...so the world might be mended.
Luke
Next-Gen
Posts: 21076 Joined: Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:39 am
Post
by Luke Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:55 pm
MrPopo wrote:
I think what he said was literally doesn't literally mean literally.
Literally?
Ack
Moderator
Posts: 22581 Joined: Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:26 pmLocation: Atlanta, GA
Post
by Ack Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:56 pm
Luke wrote: MrPopo wrote:
I think what he said was literally doesn't literally mean literally.
Literally?
No, figuratively.
Hobie-wan
Next-Gen
Posts: 21705 Joined: Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:28 pmLocation: Under a pile of retro stuff in H-town
Contact:
Post
by Hobie-wan Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:57 pm
Luke wrote: MrPopo wrote:
I think what he said was literally doesn't literally mean literally.
Literally?
Like, totally. Oh mygod. *twirls hair*
Luke
Next-Gen
Posts: 21076 Joined: Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:39 am
Post
by Luke Thu Aug 15, 2013 3:10 pm
Hobie-wan wrote:
Like, *blows huge bubble of pink hubba bubba, pops it with index finger* totally. Oh mygod. *twirls hair*
We're close to perfection on this one.
Ack
Moderator
Posts: 22581 Joined: Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:26 pmLocation: Atlanta, GA
Post
by Ack Thu Aug 15, 2013 3:12 pm
Hobie-wan wrote:
Like, *blows huge bubble of pink hubba bubba, pops it with index finger* totally. Oh mygod. *twirls hair*
Luke
Next-Gen
Posts: 21076 Joined: Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:39 am
Post
by Luke Thu Aug 15, 2013 3:17 pm
