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I want this thread to be a video and audio clearinghouse of any instances of Wikipedians beginning statements or responses to questions with the word "So...". It annoys me.
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Mark Liberman, of Language Log, notes that "literally" has been used to signify hyperbole in English writing for at least 200 years. Requiring "literally" to be taken, well, literally, is a modern phenomenon, it seems.
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QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Wed 20th July 2011, 10:06am)
Mark Liberman, of Language Log, notes that "literally" has been used to signify hyperbole in English writing for at least 200 years. Requiring "literally" to be taken, well, literally, is a modern phenomenon, it seems.
Good point. To insure no misunderstanding, if you literally mean "literally," (and not just metaphorically) you must now write or say "quite literally." And even that is no guarantee that you'll be taken literally. It's a bad case of overuse leading to corruption of an irreplaceable word. Sort of like with the word "unique."
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Wikipedians starting responses with "So..."
