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On Tue, 23 Jun 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Hello Al and everyone else.
> How may I write to someone, if I want to explore a linux topic with someone off list?
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>> On Jun 22, 2020, at 8:03 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> My objection to using "literally" figuratively is that we then have to find a new word for literally.  In the example here, "exploded" is enough and is figurative anyway.
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>> I'll skip the other stuff, and take a second of amusement that this became a topic on a Linux list.  (Then again, computers are quite literal--in their numeric fashion.
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>> Best!
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>> Al
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>> On 6/22/20 6:47 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> Yeah, I don't really get the objection to the word "share" in the
>>> context of telling someone about an experience, and while saying
>>> someone has issues is vaguer than saying someone's nuts, I don't
>>> really see such as euphemistic... granted, someone having issues could
>>> just as easily refer to everyday stress and/or bad luck.
>>>
>>> I'm also okay with the word "literally" being used figuratively(e.g.
>>> saying someone literally exploded as metaphor/hyperbole for a fit of
>>> anger).
>>>
>>> Then again, perhaps my inner linguist is just more of a descriptivist
>>> than a prescriptivist.
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