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- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 1 month ago:
Library Genesis is down. Maybe for good
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 5 months ago:
Here’s a fun list: dailywritingtips.com/75-contronyms-words-with-con…
It literally includes literally 😉
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 5 months ago:
The dictionary is descriptive, not proscriptive. Language evolves
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 5 months ago:
Literally has been used as an intensifier for over 200 years. The Oxford English Dictionary includes the definition of figuratively. Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain all used it that way in their writing.