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    1 hour ago

    Like I say, you and I use the word “literally” very, very differently.

    When I say something like “they literally said it”, I mean that they actually said it. You know, that that was what they said. Literally.

    When you use that phrase, you mean “that’s how I interpreted it because I wanted to argue about it. All day.”

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      59 minutes ago

      No, you’re using it incorrectly. You’re attempting to use it as meaning “verbatim.”

      It’s completely accurate to say “literally” while paraphrasing.

      And it wasn’t just my interpretation, it was the clear intended meaning as evidenced by later discussion when people insisted that sex has no meaningful use even in medical contexts.

      Get over yourself.

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        43 minutes ago

        It’s completely accurate to say “literally” while paraphrasing.

        1. No is isn’t. Use words like “essentially” for that. “It’s literally what they said” is in fact a lie.
        2. Especially not when inventing a bunch of absolutism that wasn’t there and interpreting it with a whole bunch of extra, much easier to debunk nonsense that you added yourself.

        people insisted that sex has no meaningful use even in medical contexts.

        I didn’t see that in this thread. Oh, unless you’re meaning it “literally” with your version of the word “literally” which doesn’t man literally literally and for some reason includes absurd straw man content.