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When you use "literally" like this, it's to indicate that what follows, whilst normally metaphorical, is in this case literal. How is "asking for a better representative on the information security front" a metaphor?

The incessant misuse of the word literally, literally makes my blood boil.

(See what I did there?)




Eh, I've never actually heard anybody ask for something in the context of "could not have asked for". And you can always ask for something better if you're willing to go to figurative lengths. Still not really defensible, though, and I wish I could edit it now that I'm being downvoted strictly on the form of my content rather than the content itself.


I figuratively want to kiss you for this.


literally, like, amen.


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Not "arguably", "actually". But he literally did that on purpose.




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