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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (1080)	4/5/1998 1:17:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Hi Penni, An Utterly Absurd Look at Grammar Sounds like a good book -- I guess it's a book. I'll look for it. People do tend to be verbally hyperbolic nowadays, don't they? Kids in the seventies ruined for me a word that had some meaning: awesome. It had some profound attributes. Awesome was what the star-filled sky was when you contemplated the magnitude of the universe. It was not to be used in praise of a sandwich or a car. Now we see the metamorphosis of "literally" which has come to mean the exact opposite. Now "literally" means "figuratively". As in: "He literally destroyed Joe in that tennis match." Knowing too much can be painful. Jack