There’s a name for that - it’s called Cunningham’s Law.
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Kase@lemmy.world 2 years agoliterally worse than Hitler.
Any minute now, somebody’s gonna argue that it’s incorrect to use literally this way. Happens every time I see the word used here on Lemmy lol
trk@aussie.zone 2 years ago
Kase@lemmy.world 2 years ago
True, but only given that the first comment was wrong, which I wouldn’t say so. But I’ve seen people who would, so it works lol
GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Well. You kind of did. Are you like Switzerland here?
Kase@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Oh no haha, I don’t agree that it’s incorrect. I’m firmly on the pro-literally-as-a-hyperbole side lol
anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 years ago
And they’re wrong every time. You can use “literally” as a rhetorical exaggeration, bam, debate over. They’re the same as the “could care less” crowd.