For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    we do though. it’s “literally”. just because a word is used in a figurative sense it doesn’t lose its literal meaning. and literally in itself is not some magical word that is immune from figurative use. it’s just another word.

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      2 months ago

      I think they’re more taking issue with that some dictionaries have seen the figurative use of the word and added figurative as a definition for the word.