Why do people keep adding this to their comments? Are they checking notes? Why do they feel the need to point it out if they are? Why are they saying they are if they aren’t? It’s like me adding “scratching head” to my comment, which I just did, but I have no idea why that adds anything to the conversation.
For dramatization, when some event is so stupidly, unexpectedly bizarre that you have to check your figurative notes to make sure you’re not just remembering a fever dream. Example:
America is rolling back renewable energy development to promote the use of beautiful, clean… (checks notes…) coal, of all fucking things.
Mothra@mander.xyz 7 months ago
It’s just a fad. Speech mannerisms also come and go with the times. Right now it’s popular to use it, and people use it.
justsomeguy@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I hard agree. Misuse of literal is a problem many decades old and it hurts still
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 7 months ago
OK but the dictionary literally modified the definition to I clude “figuratively” because language is alive and unwell
SARGE@startrek.website 7 months 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.
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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