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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 177334" data-attributes="member: 27">The mis-pronunciation of that word also bugs me.&nbsp;&nbsp; One thing that has grown to annoy me in the past few years, however, is how people not only mis-pronounce, but use words incorrectly, then try to argue that &quot;language evolves&quot; and that it&#039;s okay to ignore proper usage.&nbsp; The top offender: &quot;literally&quot;.If you &quot;literally had a heart attack,&quot; then I hope someone called 911 and carted you off to the hospital.&nbsp; If you were merely shocked for some reason, you did not literally have a heart attack--you practically had one, maybe almost had one, or (preferably) you figuratively had a heart attack.&nbsp; &quot;Literally&quot; used incorrectly seems to occur almost exclusively among the younger generation online, where hyperbole is used for everyday discussion.&nbsp; Using &quot;literally&quot; in place of &quot;figuratively,&quot; &quot;metaphorically&quot; or whatever makes the user sound stupid since it makes them appear that they missed &#039;vocabulary day&#039; in English class, and gives their statements a very different slant among those who have no concept of over-stating facts like teens often do.&nbsp; In essence, it makes them sound illiterate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 177334, member: 27"] The mis-pronunciation of that word also bugs me. One thing that has grown to annoy me in the past few years, however, is how people not only mis-pronounce, but [I]use[/I] words incorrectly, then try to argue that "language evolves" and that it's okay to ignore proper usage. The top offender: "literally". If you "literally had a heart attack," then I hope someone called 911 and carted you off to the hospital. If you were merely shocked for some reason, you did not [I]literally[/I] have a heart attack--you[I] practically[/I] had one, maybe [I]almost [/I]had one, or (preferably) you [I]figuratively[/I] had a heart attack. "Literally" used incorrectly seems to occur almost exclusively among the younger generation online, where hyperbole is used for everyday discussion. Using "literally" in place of "figuratively," "metaphorically" or whatever makes the user sound stupid since it makes them appear that they missed 'vocabulary day' in English class, and gives their statements a very different slant among those who have no concept of over-stating facts like teens often do. In essence, it makes them sound il[B]literate[/B]. [/QUOTE]

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