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Doesn't it just irritate you when someone uses an adverb such as "literally" or "really" as an intensive modifying a metaphor, such as, "I really busted my chops to get ready for the concert"?

People that do that should be stood up against the wall and shot down like dogs.

duckskiff wrote:That literally drives me nuts!

I reallly agree with you.

iiipopes wrote:Doesn't it just irritate you when someone uses an adverb such as "literally" or "really" as an intensive modifying a metaphor, such as, "I really busted my chops to get ready for the concert"?

OK, what SHOULD you really bust!?

windshieldbug wrote:

iiipopes wrote:Doesn't it just irritate you when someone uses an adverb such as "literally" or "really" as an intensive modifying a metaphor, such as, "I really busted my chops to get ready for the concert"?

OK, what SHOULD you really bust!?

tubatooter1940 wrote:People that do that should be stood up against the wall and shot down like dogs.

Sorry, but I gotta, keeping in mind the nature of the thread: by using the word "like" you have transformed the saying from a metaphor to a simile. But the same holds true. Now, to dive in on the dark side and give another example: both really get my goat.

iiipopes wrote:both really get my goat.

I am, like, soooo tired of goats being stolen. It REALLY butters my biscuit. On that note, time to go pop those delicious suckers in the oven!!

Ralph

Like, people who do that should be really stood up against the wall and literally shot down like actual stolen goats. Totally.

And bloke, you're probably really talkin' "Fitty Cen"...

If I didn't know any better, I'd say we had some str8 up gangstas!!!

R-Dog

Looks to me like all the above.

Wow, I was hoping for a comment or two, but now it's getting into the second page!

That's really great!

iiipopes wrote:Doesn't it just irritate you when someone uses an adverb such as "literally" or "really" as an intensive modifying a metaphor, such as, "I really busted my chops to get ready for the concert"?

Hopefully, I was like, really--you know?
And then I was like so "no way."

Greg wrote:You know what literally drives me up the wall? When you are in the middle of a conversation with somebody and they start a sentence or statement with "I'll be honest with you......" Wait a minute, have you been lying for all the rest of the time I've known you? Cause, I'll be honest with you, that's a silly thing to say, to be honest!

Greg, I HAVE been lying to you...and to ALL of you. I really DON'T look like my avatar. I KNOW I KNOW!!! THE SHAME!!!!! I am really sorry. Like, hella sorry....

Ralph

Greg wrote:You know what literally drives me up the wall? When you are in the middle of a conversation with somebody and they start a sentence or statement with "I'll be honest with you......" Wait a minute, have you been lying for all the rest of the time I've known you?

An excellent point. I have to admit I have been guilty of making that statement. I have even done this when I was not lying.

TexTuba wrote:I HAVE been lying to you...and to ALL of you.

Would that be "laying" or "laing" or "liang" or "lying"?

Greg wrote:You know what literally drives me up the wall? When you are in the middle of a conversation with somebody and they start a sentence or statement with "I'll be honest with you......" Wait a minute, have you been lying for all the rest of the time I've known you? Cause, I'll be honest with you, that's a silly thing to say, to be honest!

Indeed. As if they weren't being honest before!

God bless her, I have an aunt who starts conversations with, "I was going to say..." which also irritates me to no end. But being family, I have to tolerate it.

windshieldbug wrote:

TexTuba wrote:I HAVE been lying to you...and to ALL of you.

Would that be "laying" or "laing" or "liang" or "lying"?

That, sir, would be a most definite....maybe?

Ralph

Truly, "really" is really just a version of "truly". I have nothing against the use of "truly". But some people would think using "truly" to be really arcane.

SplatterTone wrote:Truly, "really" is really just a version of "truly". I have nothing against the use of "truly". But some people would think using "truly" to be really arcane.

I find such thinking to be truly antediluvian

Any intensive is just that, an intensive. It's just a word to put in front of an exclamation point. It has no real meaning outside the context, even if the intensive word does have its own meaning in a non-intensive context. Next time you are tempted to use an intensive, ask yourself if one of the classic 4-letter words would be appropriate, or at least not discounted with disfavor, at being said in its place. If the use of the 4-letter word would be deprecated, the intensive you were about to use probably would be also, or at the very least add nothing to the conversation, and most likely would be a distraction rather than an addition to the meaning of the conversation.

Bob and David of Mr. Show wrote:"I literally sh*t my pants!"
"What did you do with your sh*tty pants?"
"No, dude. I didn't actually sh*t my pants, I literally sh*t them".

I miss that show....