Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere?

Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• justsomeguy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It do be like that. Many of them get repeated till they reach a critical point and everyone is sick of them. Some of them are harder to tolerate than others though. I can deal with people ‘checking notes’ here and there but those who use “literally” as every second word in their sentences awaken a primal rage inside of me that is yearning for rock to split skull. Luckily that trend isn’t as prevalent as it used to be back in the day.

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    there but those who use “literally” as every second word in their sentences awaken a primal rage inside of me that is yearning for rock to split skull.

    I hard agree. Misuse of literal is a problem many decades old and it hurts still

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    OK but the dictionary literally modified the definition to I clude “figuratively” because language is alive and unwell

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    • Odo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That “modern” definition of literally is at least 250 years old. It wasn’t created by the internet, or even any living person.

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• untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  fr fr on God no cap

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• SARGE@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And with all fads, it’s cyclical. But on the internet, things move quicker so instead of 20-30 years, it’s more like 5-10.

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