This week's Pet Peeve is when people mis-use the word "literally." The world Literal, means that something actual happened the way it was described. It is a true statement about facts. I was watching CNN headline news today and a reporter said that boxes of Simpson's themed cereal was literally flying off the shelves [at 7-11's (renamed Kwick-E-Mart for promotional purposes).] Obviously, I shouldn't have to say it - but if the boxes of cereal were literally flying off the shelves, that would mean that, of their own volition, they were actually levitating off the shelves and leaving the store or flying around the store. The boxes of cereal were actually "figuratively flying off the shelves."
-cjfer-
Manning the Planet 1 show.
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