AAAANYWAY. I got home and checked my Reader, and what do I see? Perfect synchronicity!
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http://xkcd.com/725/
If you've not browsed the entire archives of the brilliant webcomic XKCD, you should go do that right now. Or maybe just watch this a few times and hum it for the next four days. Whatever. I'm not here to judge.
Incidentally, if you want to hear the rest of my crusade against the word "literal" you're welcome to give it a listen:
www.theliftcommunity.com/4-8-10.mp3
Now if I could just convince a few people that rain on your wedding day isn't actually an example of irony, I could consider it an evening well-spent.
5 comments:
which guy in the cartoon were you?
That was literally a commentary on a commentary...
see what I did there?
I have the same feelings about the use of 'literally' that you do. However, I have stronger feelings about people using 'actually' in completely the wrong way--and too often in the wrong way. When are people going to learn?
I get that rain on your wedding day isn't ironic...but what about a free ride, when you've already paid?
Or the good advice that I just didn't take?
"cool!"
In Alanis' defense, she did later admit that she realized after the fact that most of her song's references weren't ironic--they were just really bad things that could happen to people.
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