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minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·1 year agoIt is hyperbole, but the problem is that it’s using a word that was supposed to specify that something was not hyperbole as hyperbole, rendering it useless.
minus-squareReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year ago the problem is that it’s using a word that was supposed to specify that something was not hyperbole as hyperbole, rendering it useless. … Or… Because it’s a word specifically meant to indicate it is not hyperbolic, using it in that way is literally the superlative hyperbole.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year agoAt the cost of the word’s intended use, unfortunately. RIP literally. It literally died.
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago rendering it useless Another example of hyperbole.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoOkay, rendering it far less useful.
It is hyperbole, but the problem is that it’s using a word that was supposed to specify that something was not hyperbole as hyperbole, rendering it useless.
… Or… Because it’s a word specifically meant to indicate it is not hyperbolic, using it in that way is literally the superlative hyperbole.
At the cost of the word’s intended use, unfortunately. RIP literally. It literally died.
Another example of hyperbole.
Okay, rendering it far less useful.
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