Literally literally means literally.
It also means “in effect; virtually”.
Literally.
Shower thoughts = casual observations about shit everyone should know.
English is fluid. Give it time.
People say it’s freezing outside, but it’s a few degrees above water becoming a solid. What gives?
They say they’re starving even though they just haven’t eaten all day.
People need to follow the rules when it comes to words or else we descend into chaos. It’s literally a highway to hell!
Those are exaggerations, not comparisons.
What a hot take.
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That’s what the word “figuratively” is for. You don’t say fat to mean figuratively thin.
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But if something is “literally like” alleging else, does that not just equate to similar too since the literal definition of similar is to be like something else?
Mere similarity implies incomplete equivalence.
Never thought about it like that actually, that’s good.
Yes, something that’s like something else is also literally like it, because literally emphasizes that it’s really true. But “I literally died laughing” is wrong unless you’re actually dead.
