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Politics : The Castle
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To: Lane3 who wrote (4704)4/27/2005 7:51:35 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 7936
 
The Literal Is Figurative
Posted by Trent McBride @ 6:10 pm in

I swear I was planning on dropping a short post on how the word “literally” has become to mean its exact opposite “figuratively.” But that Radley Balko, he always scratches where I itch:

One of the ESPN announcers for the Pacers-Bulls game last night said that in the third quarter, “Jermaine O’Neal literally carried the Pacers on his back.”
Quite a feat. There’s twelve of them. And they’re big guys. And O’Neal has a sore shoulder...

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