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iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:04 am

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"?

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:08 am

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

Albertibass · Post by **Albertibass** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:02 pm

duckskiff wrote:That literally drives me nuts!

I reallly agree with you.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:30 pm

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!?

Albertibass · Post by **Albertibass** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:49 pm

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!?

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:29 pm

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.

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:31 pm

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

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:44 pm

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"...

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:02 pm

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

R-Dog

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:06 pm

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!

Dean E · Post by **Dean E** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:06 pm

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."

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:06 pm

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

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:45 pm

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.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:41 pm

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

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

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:52 pm

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.

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:23 am

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

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:16 pm

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.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:19 pm

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

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:22 pm

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.

dtemp · Post by **dtemp** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:48 am

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....

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