David Wadler’s Assorted Thoughts

10/31/2006

Literal Grammatical Abuse

Filed under: General — admin @ 11:43 am

I must admit to being pleased that others are similarly vexed by the misuse of the word, “literally.” Jesse Sheidlower, has a piece in Slate about the literary histoy or literally. I was also quite amused to find that there is a blog devoted to the subject of misusing “literally.” Now, if I could only convince those people to keep an eye on the misuse and abuse of “nonplussed.” ;-)

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