I hate

Conversely, when English people complain about Americans 'ruining their language' by using spelling/pronunciation that actually often pre-dates that which we use.

Eg gotten

'Got' in general is a terrible word.

'fizzy' for physiotherapist

Just no.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/199981/

"literally crying with laughter"
"just spat coffee all over my desk"

No, you've just enjoyed something.

'per say', or 'persay'.

When people refer to their car collection as their 'stable'.

People who make the loud/annoying noise that they are telling you about.

People who have enough cars to be considered a collection.

Woman on a train recently - “I literally thought my head was going to explode!!!!”

Idiot.

She either meant ‘figuratively’, or Scanners is real

I used to work with a bloke who drummed with them

... people who don't understand the concept of hyperbole.

@jj72 ;)

Cunts who think it's appropriate to be setting off fireworks on the 11th November.

Wouldn’t hyperbole be ‘I thought my head was going to explode’. The inclusion of ‘literally’ should be for the purpose of differentiating from hyperbole.

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Or should it?

Many linguists disagree: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/literally-centuries-of-non-literal-literally/

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Many linguists can literally fuck right off

Nah. The whole point is that of course she didn't think her head was going to explode. The word 'literally' just serves to put more emphasis on the expression.

I've never understood why people chose to get so angry at this one specific way that language used in everyday conversations differs from what you'd write in an essay. Oh no, a word not being used LITERALLY in its literal sense. Whatever next?

I thought that was literally the point of this thread

I think people in this country have had enough of experts.

What did they ever really do for us, other than ruining our cathartic linguistic rants?

At the end of the day, the ‘literally’ thing is just one of those sayings that lost meaning due to over-use.

"Ten movies / albums / sandwiches / bands / pokemans that made an impact. Just an image. No explanation. No particular order."

urrrrrgh no one fucking cares you self indulgent arseholes.