Message from @Lios

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2019-09-04 05:14:55 UTC  

Show me this singular myriad.

2019-09-04 05:15:02 UTC  

You make me want to metaphorically blow my brains out in a myriad of ways.

2019-09-04 05:15:06 UTC  

A ton of other things used to mean something else

2019-09-04 05:15:13 UTC  

I used the adjective version of the word

2019-09-04 05:15:29 UTC  

But anything that has changed meaning was often descriptive. There are prescriptive words.

2019-09-04 05:15:32 UTC  

Such as "literally"

2019-09-04 05:15:48 UTC  

Which is meant to mean exactly as you see it, and as it happened.

2019-09-04 05:16:03 UTC  

Now we also allow using it as the literal antonym: figuratively.

2019-09-04 05:16:41 UTC  

So now the word becomes a confusion. You cannot trust that when something says that something "literally" happened, we have permitted it to also mean it might only have figuratively happened.

2019-09-04 05:16:42 UTC  

That's a form of hyperbole, people do that all the time

2019-09-04 05:16:51 UTC  

Like when they say "all my life I've been waiting"

2019-09-04 05:16:59 UTC  

No they haven't been waiting all their life

2019-09-04 05:17:03 UTC  

Because as babies they couldn't have waited

2019-09-04 05:17:14 UTC  

They weren't aware of what they would be waiting for

2019-09-04 05:17:16 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/613770471938195467/618675926057746432/Screenshot_20190904-000853_Google.jpg

2019-09-04 05:17:21 UTC  

It literally means the same thing

2019-09-04 05:17:30 UTC  

But it *doesn't*

2019-09-04 05:17:50 UTC  

Because both are distinct, yes?

2019-09-04 05:17:56 UTC  

Even tho they mean the exact same thing

2019-09-04 05:18:01 UTC  

Wait what

2019-09-04 05:18:10 UTC  

So when someone says "I'm literally dead" and they stand before you, still quite very alive, do you think they may have used the word incorrectly?

2019-09-04 05:18:45 UTC  

*"A* countless or extremely great number"
"countless or extremely great *IN* number"

2019-09-04 05:18:51 UTC  

Definitely literally not the same

2019-09-04 05:19:05 UTC  

So a myriad of different dreams. A myriad of queers at a trans parade. They're all crazy different dreams. They're all crazy demented confused gay people. Noun. Refering to *them* or the *thing* like my dream or those queers.

2019-09-04 05:19:26 UTC  

Adjective being in a myriad of ways I want to metaphorically blow my brains out. *in many different ways*

2019-09-04 05:19:48 UTC  

@Lios that's hyperbole to express an extreme reaction, like for example shock, or strong laughter

2019-09-04 05:20:13 UTC  

Doesn't answer the question, though. Is the word being used correctly?

2019-09-04 05:20:27 UTC  

Yes

2019-09-04 05:20:28 UTC  

It's both

2019-09-04 05:20:28 UTC  

It is

2019-09-04 05:20:34 UTC  

It's being used correctly and incorrectly

2019-09-04 05:20:34 UTC  

I used it correctly

2019-09-04 05:20:54 UTC  

In the *literal* sense it's being used incorrectly, in the *figurative* sense it's being used correctly

2019-09-04 05:20:56 UTC  

Myriad is the old topic, Joey, keep up

2019-09-04 05:21:01 UTC  

No it isnt I used it correctly good night I already explained it n you're ignoring it

2019-09-04 05:21:10 UTC  

Nighty night good wishes to you all

2019-09-04 05:21:36 UTC  

And yeah Joey did use "a myriad" correctly

2019-09-04 05:21:37 UTC  

So you permit literally being used figuratively? So now literally is entirely permitted to be used alongside figuratively?

2019-09-04 05:21:52 UTC  

It's both a noun and an adjective, so it's correct

2019-09-04 05:22:13 UTC  

I still highly disagree, using "a myriad" as a noun, to reference another noun, without which is becomes an entirely meaningless word, makes it the incorrect usage of the word

2019-09-04 05:22:15 UTC  

About the "literally dead" thing, that's a different matter