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Holy shit, i just realized, that objectively is Literally going to be the new "Literally" once the internet gets done with it

I.e. reducing the word to a literally objectively meaningless "intensifier" aka meaningless internet buzzword for shitposting and trolling in a linguistical race to the bottom.

>> No.3222770

yeah but who cares

>> No.3222773

Yeah I was pissed in the 16th century when 'thy' went out of fashion.

>> No.3222781

>>3222763
>2012
>"objectivity"
There's already been so much tendentious blather about objectivity that no one with anything worth saying will miss it.

>> No.3222784

>>3222781
Post modernist liberal arts major detected

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>>3222781
Carpenter with a STEM boner actually.
I just read actual books about actual science instead of jerking off to the pictures in Popular Science.

>> No.3222837

>>3222763
if you expect the common speech not to be pleonastic then you are deluding yourself but i believe that is symptomatic of the first quiverings of an aristocratic taste growing in you. naturally, the parting from the mob is very hard for you, after all - you were mob for most of your life, but don't despair for their sake. there's hope for you yet, OP.

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I don't think it will be.

But "literally" is still going strong. Such a shame. I won't even get started on a rant about it.

>> No.3222860

>>3222850
not as bad as expletory 'like' and the ubiquitous 'sort of' for almost, nearly, and more descriptive adverbial constructions.

>> No.3222864

>>3222860
zizek uses them a lot, although sometimes his kind of an sort of are just the effect of the german habit he picked up from hegel et al. of categorising everything. foreigners seem especially prone to picking up filthy versions of english, even academics.

>> No.3222912

LEGITERALLY.

I can't wait for that word.

>> No.3222913

>>3222912
this is spectacular, im using it asap

>> No.3222954

"artisanal"

>> No.3223485

>>3222912
>LEGITERALLY.
That is totes awes

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>>3222763
A Kenzie gif. On my /lit/.

>> No.3223491

>>3222912
>LEGITERALLY

Now officially part of my active vocabulary.

>> No.3223493

>>3223485
Get the fuck out.

>> No.3223958

>>3222797
What field?
What bothers you most about popular science?
For me it's that most of their articles are about things which have not happened yet and are pure speculation.
I prefer to read magazine's like Wired which have interesting, well researched in-depth articles about current events.

>> No.3223959

>>3223958
>Magazine's.
I'm so sorry for that.

>> No.3223962

I would welcome that if it means that literally goes out of fashion.

>> No.3224016

>>3222837
ULTIMATE PRETENTIOUS!

>> No.3224021

>>3223493
>legiterally upset

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