The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a late-night Saturday memo, also threatened to impose financial penalties on states that did not comply with the government's new orders.
Because the dictionary covers the practical usage, and the misuse is as common as the actual use. The dictionary definition for litterally includes the formal “in a way that uses the ordinary or primary meaning of a term or expression” and the informal that means the exact opposite “statement or description that is not literally true or possible”
I find it kind of ironic to say it’s actual definition for literally includes effectively or it could also mean “not literally”
You MUST Stop FEEDING STARVING AMERICAN CHILDREN!
-Republicans LITERALLY!
It’s even worse than that. It’s quite literally taking food BACK out of their mouths.
🤔
You gotta realize even the dictionary has given up on this one…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
Because the dictionary covers the practical usage, and the misuse is as common as the actual use. The dictionary definition for litterally includes the formal “in a way that uses the ordinary or primary meaning of a term or expression” and the informal that means the exact opposite “statement or description that is not literally true or possible”
I find it kind of ironic to say it’s actual definition for literally includes effectively or it could also mean “not literally”
Merriam Webster hasn’t been the academic standard for decades. The Oxford one did not capitulate to trends.
Edit to add: https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=Literally
Hard to judge from your link, as apparently they paywalled it.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/literally
but I’m assuming it’s not too different than this. Which also includes
(informal) used to emphasize a word or phrase, even if it is not literally true I literally jumped out of my skin.
“quite literally” would mean there are federal officers or agents in people’s homes scraping chewed food out of children’s mouths.
I think you mean “virtually taking food BACK out of their mouths.”
I think you hit upon an idea they didn’t think about. ICE has a new role! Masked food police.
“No soup for you!”
Gives a new meaning to the soup nazi…
Republicans when handing out business loans like candy during COVID:
It’s just too difficult to get all that money back. Just forgive all the loans.
Republicans when children are fed with government benefits
GET THAT FUCKING MONEY BACK RIGHT NOW