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aph319
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"David Cross has a whole bit about this very issue."

4/9/2010 1:34:53 PM
qntmfred
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" looks like that smarty pants qntmfred just got beat at his own game"


FALSE

just because a definition includes a figurative context doesn't mean that you can say it LITERALLY happened and that doesn't imply the literal context.

4/9/2010 7:16:42 PM
JeffreyBSG
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"just because a definition includes a figurative context doesn't mean that you can say it LITERALLY happened and that doesn't imply the literal context."


agree 100%

when you affix "literally" to a word, you're explicitly saying "I mean this word in its most literal sense"

4/9/2010 7:19:03 PM
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