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My favorite Corso story was how every many years ago that Andy Dalton and TCU played at the Rose Bowl, my wife (who had been a Tournament of Roses volunteer for years) was assigned to the TCU marching

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1 minute ago, Red Five said:

That Slow Ride entrance was the best thing ESPN has done in years.

Fuck yeah. ESPN and Herbie suck though. Maybe they replace Corso and Herbie at the same time to get some new chemistry. Got to have someone likeable replace Corso or they are fucked, he's literally the show RN and he should've retired 3 or 4 years ago.

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45 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

Literally?

The snobbery about using "literally" was literally just brought up in 1909

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 has a long and esteemed history in English. The ground was not especially sticky in "Little Women" when Louisa May Alcott wrote that `The land literally flowed with milk and honey.' Tom Sawyer was not turning somersaults on piles of money when Mark Twain described him as `literally rolling in wealth.' Jay Gatsby was not shining when Fitzgerald wrote that he `literally glowed.' Such examples are easily come by, even in the works of the authors we are often told to emulate.

How did literally come to mean the opposite of what it originally meant, either `word for word' or `exactly'? By the late 17th century, `literally' was being used as an intensifier for true statements. Jane Austen wrote of being `literally rocked in bed on a stormy night.' In such examples, `literally' is being used for the sake of emphasis alone. Eventually, though, `literally' began to be used to intensify statements that were themselves figurative or metaphorical. You can find examples throughout the 19th century, but no one seems to have objected until the early 20th. In 1909, the satirist Ambrose Bierce included the term in "Write it Right," a little blacklist of literary faults. `It is bad enough to exaggerate,' he wrote, `but to affirm the truth of the exaggeration is intolerable.'

 

Who in the flying fuck is Ambrose Bierce?? 

If Mark Twain used "literally" this way, that's good enough for me. 

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41 minutes ago, Lone Star Horn said:

The snobbery about using "literally" was literally just brought up in 1909

Who in the flying fuck is Ambrose Bierce?? 

If Mark Twain used "literally" this way, that's good enough for me. 

The difference is that Mark Twain was smarter than 99% of the fucksticks that misuse the word today and he would have known precisely what he was doing when he used it that way.

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