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jamie redknapp's best misuse's of the word "literally"



Oct 25, 2003
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-“The crowd behind the goal are literally going insane.”

-“He had to cut back inside onto his left, because he literally hasn’t got a right foot”

-‘He’s literally turned him inside out.’

-“This new ball is going quicker than ever - it literally explodes off the player’s foot.”

-“That cross to Rooney was literally on a plate”
 








Blackadder

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 6, 2003
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Haywards Heath
metaphorically speaking that could be bollocks!
 








Davemania

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Jul 11, 2011
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Uckfield
-“The crowd behind the goal are literally going insane.”

-“He had to cut back inside onto his left, because he literally hasn’t got a right foot”

-‘He’s literally turned him inside out.’

-“This new ball is going quicker than ever - it literally explodes off the player’s foot.”

-“That cross to Rooney was literally on a plate”


lol theyre great, i literally wet myself whilst reading them

I also like when commentators say things like....and the referees blown up!
 












edna krabappel

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Jul 7, 2003
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The other day he described a player- possibly Aguero- as "literally floating above the pitch".

He and his old man are a disgrace to the English language.
 




Gus is god

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Sep 9, 2011
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My fav was pardew and he got in trouble about rape.

seagulls
 








A few years ago he said "Paul Scholes can literally stop time" which is my favourite.

Is he definitely misusing the word?

That's debatable. It's an accepted 'informal' use of the word literally, to mean 'in effect; in substance; very nearly; virtually' (taken from dictionary.com but repeated elsewhere). Most of the examples in this thread are probably covered by this. However it certainly runs against the original use of the word, and doesn't stop Redknapp from being a knobjockey.
 


DTES

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Jul 7, 2003
6,022
London
-“The crowd behind the goal are literally going insane.”

-“He had to cut back inside onto his left, because he literally hasn’t got a right foot”

-‘He’s literally turned him inside out.’

-“This new ball is going quicker than ever - it literally explodes off the player’s foot.”

-“That cross to Rooney was literally on a plate”

We at NSC (in particular you, [MENTION=1349]turienzo's lovechild[/MENTION]), are literally famous as this thread has been mentioned and linked to on the Guardian today. Literally brilliant.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2012/mar/12/reality-check-literally-wrong-use-word
 









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