Literally. the best blog you will ever read

it·er·al·ly adv. - In a literal manner; word for word.


Im sure many of you have heard many rants by me on this subject. rightfully so. because it is one of my ( many ) biggest pet peeves.
but I have noticed alot more lately, people using the word literally, way out of context and saying things like

“I’m so hungry, I could literally eat a horse.”

When you use the word literally, you are stating that you mean exactly what you are saying with no exaggeration, or metaphor . It means that until you have eaten an ENTIRE horse, you will not be full.

Literally is commonly MISused to emphasize or qualify what your saying is true

So if your saying "it was literally the worst movie iv ever seen" and you actually mean it. just say it and mean it. Don’t qualify it. If you’re a person of your word, which we all should be, we will all believe it when you say it.

I am one to pick on phrases and words, but I will rarely suggest that one is thrown out. But dare i say. I think this is a word we could do without.

Throw out literally. No one will miss it.

So go ahead. in your day to day walk. you will be suprised at how often people ( without thinking usually ) misuse this word. its often halarious. but mostly annoying
Me and a friend were going to illustrate a book called

" Literally. the best book you have ever read"

and draw what people were LITERALLY saying ( phrases we have overheard personally )
We already have collected quite the hefty list of offenders.
some of my favorite being.

" We are going to literally turn this city upsidown! " ( that would take ALOT of work and ALOT of people will probably be angry )
" He was literally living out of his suitcase" ( small man? or obscenely large suitcase? )
" Their jaws literally dropped" ( ew )
"When we got off the plane. there were literally a sea of people " ( really? when you got off the plane there was no other option of mobilization but to swim through the twisted and mangled crowd before you? or did you need a canoe!?)

Post script: Anyone that has spoken with me in person knows that I am guilty for using ALOT words out of context, so if we are announcing a nationwide 'free for all' on the English language, maybe I would be able to speak more freely in person without fearing regret or embarrassment for my lack of speaking abilities. If that is the case, I will literally fly up into the air, spin three times, and ironically fall to my impending doom